It’s weird that so many template systems designed for the web take the time to calculate what the final byte of a response should be before transmitting the first byte. — When an application receives a request for new content, we might query our database, make our own HTTP requests, perform some computation, and then slowly assemble the string of HTML content we will send back in the response. While we’re doing this, our user is left staring at a blank…

I’ve just got back to my hotel from the pre-conference pub quiz at RenderConf 2016, which was enormous fun. The quiz was a mixture of standard pub quiz fare (picture round, music round, etc) but with a good dose of nerd and developer-related questions too. One round particularly concluded with…

I’m a big fan of Gary Bernhardt’s lightning “Wat” talk, from CodeMash 2012. It helps that I’m something of a sucker for inside jokes. I’ve tried showing the video of the talk to my non-developer wife, who tolerates my raucous laughter with good grace and a bemused expression, despite not…