ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE I don’t use Javascript frameworks, so React appeals to me. I like how it organizes ideas. I like its top-down, one-way flow of data. But I also think some of its usefulness is debatable. It has a big island of tooling that’s going in a very different direction than the…

Download it here. There is also a Document window. This could be useful for doing things with canvas or D3 — where you want to see the changes reflected as they are made.

ES6 brings template literals, this means real multi-line strings, and expression interpolation! They’re implemented everywhere and you can use them today. For me, a library is only worth using if it offers a least a 10x improvement over the current way of doing things. I’ve written a lot of template…

Out of the box, with clang, when you compile a program you get comprehensive stack traces for compile-time errors with lots of output options. Compile-time debugging… Here’s a simple vanilla example (short for the purpose of this demonstration)… Not too bad. File, line number, column, error explanation. More complex errors will show…

Why we need a conference for decentralized systems and protocols… Distributed vs Decentralized A distributed system is a network of computers that work toward a shared goal. This is basically a hub and spoke model, where most computers do some work and then communicate with a few, more important computers that act as…

Regarding the cost of I/O. — You’ve probably seen this slide entitled “The cost of I/O”. It’s really popular in Node.js presentations and articles. However, it’s a pretty narrow view of the big picture. This slide tells a short story; “do stuff in memory and then write it to disk, the network is expensive”.