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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

Dreaming the future of software; Project Editor ECMAScript 2015; Reformed Smalltalker JavaScript historian https://t.co/TLCrI97REE… @[email protected] wirfs-brock.com/allen Sherwood Oregon USA Joined June 2010
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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

a year ago

The Onward! Essays 2024 submission deadline of April 25 is rapidly approaching. If you have an essay relating to software, programming, or programming languages which has not yet been formally published please consider submitting it. 2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2…

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

2 years ago

Call for Onward! Essays Submissions due 25 Apr 2024 2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2… Onward! is more radical, more visionary and more open than other conferences. Onward! Essays invites software developers&academics to submit essays on the state & possible futures of software development

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda

2 years ago

To: the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see things differently Subject: you should write an Onward! paper alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1708

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Tomas Petricek (find me on BlueSky) @tomaspetricek

2 years ago

Another post in my series on architecture as a metaphor for software development. Inspired by staring at the ceiling in Centre Pompidou after @ncraftsConf tomasp.net/blog/2023/pomp…

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

2 years ago

@BrendanEich @TypeScriptBob @aaronfrost The full (189 page) HOPL JavaScript history paper is at dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… NOT paywalled!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt

2 years ago

wow, found an official guide from Apple on how to structure your GUI app to support chat commands using LLMs with function calling 🤯 imagine saying to chatgpt "set that chart to be a 3d pie" and that command can get routed to a Part of your Compound Document

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

2 years ago

Ecma TC53 workshop in Cupertino, on 6 Dec 2023 "...participants will discuss proposals and consider options for embedded JavaScript standardization including new APIs, interoperability, packaging, and Hardened JavaScript (aka Secure ECMAScript)" ecma-international.org/news/invitatio…

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

2 years ago

The 2023 edition of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) standards have been released and again this year we used @paged_js to produce PDFs from HTML. Paged.js 0.4.1 was more robust than 0.3.5 that we used last year. ❤️❤️ The PDFs are at ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl… ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl…

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

3 years ago

The 2023 edition of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) standards have been released and again this year we used @paged_js to produce PDFs from HTML. Paged.js 0.4.1 was more robust than 0.3.5 that we used last year. ❤️❤️ The PDFs are at ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl… ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl…

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda

2 years ago

LIVE Programming Workshop 2022 videos are up youtube.com/playlist?list=…

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

3 years ago

Yup, the reason better development technologies never resolves the "software development crisis" is because our ambitions always expand until they exceed our capabilities.

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

3 years ago

In fact, most early (1950s-60s) languages only had non-reentrant subroutines with statically allocated vars. Through the 70s there was controversy WRT desirability of implicitly or explicitly allowing procs to be reentrant/recursive.

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Omar Rizwan @rsnous

3 years ago

In fact, most early (1950s-60s) languages only had non-reentrant subroutines with statically allocated vars. Through the 70s there was controversy WRT desirability of implicitly or explicitly allowing procs to be reentrant/recursive.

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Manuel Simoni @msimoni

3 years ago

Few understand this: "JavaScript is an extraordinarily good language. ... they think it's a toy language, but in fact, it's probably one of the best languages out there. The other thing is, it's had billions of dollars of investment to make it very, very, very fast" - @gocroquet

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Liam Proven @lproven

3 years ago

Few understand this: "JavaScript is an extraordinarily good language. ... they think it's a toy language, but in fact, it's probably one of the best languages out there. The other thing is, it's had billions of dollars of investment to make it very, very, very fast" - @gocroquet

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Tijs van der Storm @tvdstorm

3 years ago

Happy to serve as this year's @splashcon Onward! papers PC chair! Please see the CFP here: 2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2… Submission deadline: 28th of April! Send your crazy and visionary ideas to Onward! #onward23 #splash23

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Robert Graham @ErrataRob

3 years ago

🧵Biden has released his "National Cybersecurity Strategy". It's just police-state thuggery designed to kill innovation on the Internet. It says it wants innovation -- but only on their terms, with the jackboot of police-state oppression on your neck. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

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Manuel Simoni @msimoni

3 years ago

Typecels can cope and seethe, but OOP is and remains the best technology for many domains, especially ones with complex, hierarchical, dynamic structures like GUIs.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt

3 years ago

In my experience it feels magical to build software in a local-first style when the tools work well and are fast. You just write client software, no servers, you can collaborate live with people. A nice overview of some patterns to support this: inkandswitch.com/pushpin/

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Peter van Hardenberg @pvh

3 years ago

Automerge 2.0 is here! Orders of magnitude faster, vastly better memory use, a compact binary format, a built-in synchronization engine, and available in both Rust and JavaScript. Best of all? Thanks to sponsors, @alex_jg works full-time on improving it. automerge.org/blog/automerge…

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Mike Milinkovich @mmilinkov

3 years ago

@jenseckels @EclipseFdn Our read is that the European Cyber Resiliency Act as currently drafted will legally turn open source foundations into suppliers, with the same legal obligations as companies. The unintended consequences of that are exhausting to consider. eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/01/15/eur…

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Alex Rampell @arampell

3 years ago

1/ Thread: How to sell your company Companies are (almost always) bought, not sold. This means somebody needs to *want to buy* your company. Ideally this happens organically. But how do you, as a founder/CEO, expedite this…particularly when you KNOW you’re hitting a wall?

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Allen Wirfs-Brock @awbjs

3 years ago

@stephenrkell The other thing: augmenting the "natural" world to be more hospitable and empowering for humans. Most of us already live in an a world modified by ambient digital enhancements (some good/some evil). A world largely ignored by mainstream CS.

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