Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Richard MacManus • The New Stack
Thirty years ago, Netscape engineer Brendan Eich famously created a new client-side scripting language in just ten days. It was initially called Mocha, but by the end of the year it would be renamed JavaScript. In 1995, nobody could’ve predicted that JavaScript would become the world’s most popular programming language. But that’s exactly what happened.
JavaScript is most definitely the defacto standard for app development in the browser and it’s used heavily on the server, desktop, and mobile app development. Incredible.
I’ve said for years and years JavaScript is to the browser what C once was to the desktop. Nowadays most folks refer to browser apps as desktop apps, which can be confusing to old timers like me. 😄
If you go see Zootopia 2 this weekend, I’m in the credits, way towards the end, in the technology section.
Congratulations, Lucien! Great Mac developers still exist in the world and Lucien is one of ‘em. Keep on keeping on! ❤️
The work is finally done for the worst selection committee in the College Football Playoff’s dozen-year history, and there are only two ways to explain the grotesque, odious bracket that it belched out Sunday.
I found this upsetting as did many others, but I have to believe that picking the team to leave out was a miserable task. I really hope this wasn’t some kind of political thing because Notre Dame is an independent.
Throughout my morning, I hadn’t visited a single source website directly. I hadn’t refreshed anything manually. Everything had just appeared, delivered automatically from each source to the app I’d chosen to read it in. My information diet runs on feeds.
Sure, I’m a bit biased, but feed readers are the way to go if you like reading the news. The idea of it coming to you without thinking about it is just plain nice.
I know newsletters have become all the rage. A feed reader gives you the same capability.
So my question is this: Why vibe code with a language that has humanconvenience and ergonomics in view? Or to put that another way: Wouldn’t a language designed for vibe codingnaturally dispense with much of what is convenient and ergonomic for humans in favor of what is convenient and ergonomic for machines? Why not have it just write C? Or hell, why not x86 assembly?
That’s not a bad idea! Just vibe code in the most efficient language. Hopefully the code is safe and easily readable. I’d imagine at some point a human may want to do some work on it. Maybe I’m being naive. Maybe the LLM would own it and always be used to modify it? 🤔
San Francisco’s iconic cable car system is both the world’s oldest and the only one still operating, but that doesn’t mean that the cable cars themselves are all vintage. As working transportation vehicles constructed largely of wood, they have a limited lifespan and periodically need to be rebuilt, and new ones even have to be built from the ground up.
This is one of those craftsman jobs I think is really interesting and would be extremely satisfying. 🪚
The NYT should have started their own Twitter, with exclusive access by people who are quoted in the NYT, so there would have been a connection between the pub, its rep, more inclusive than the masthead.
It’s not too late! They could easily fire up an instance of Mastodon or build ActivityPub directly into their tools.
The easiest route is to start a Mastodon instance. How does nytimes.social sound? 😀
What can be written about Gotham that hasn’t already been published? The typeface, commissioned by GQ Magazine in the early 2000s, is now so ubiquitous it has become part of the visual landscape and can be seen all over the world from Manhattan to Melbourne, Bangkok to Buenos Aires.
What is time? It doesn’t seem like it was created that long ago. It really is a beautiful font.
When it was completed in 1868, this lovely little survivor was not designed to stand out. It may have been built as an outlier, but it was likely part of a row of identical houses meant to appeal to upper middle class buyers enriched by the city’s gangbusters post-Civil War economy.
I want this place. I’d remodel the inside and consider putting a coffee shop in the bottom floor.
I would definitely need an elevator. 😃
In-N-Out Burger has quietly removed the number 67 from its order ticket system after repeated chaos caused by teenagers reacting to the viral “6-7” trend, employees and customers say.
Kids today.
Our grandkids drive us a little nuts with this, especially our grandson. 🤣
Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. This project celebrates the art and culture of laptop personalization each laptop tells a story through its stickers and gives us a glimpse of the personality of the owners.
I absolutely love this website and need to submit a picture of mine. 😉
Thanks, Jason.
