Over at The Mad Botter I've been working my tail off trying to get a new version of our AI Slack bot Alice out before the end of the new year. As the code has become more complex, I turned to Typescript, Microsoft's programming language that's intended to bring static...
FOSSGiving 2017
Long time readers of this blog and Coder Radio listeners may recall that for the last few Thanksgivings I’ve been writing up or covering on the show my list of open-source tools that I am thankful for that I feel will be significant in the year to come; if you’re...
Pallet Town: Giving Into Javascript Classes
Sometimes you just have to make a compromise for expedience and for me that’s using Javascript classes.
How I Missed Web Assembly
As pointed out by an intrepid Coder Radio listener, I totally missed the importance of Web Assembly when it was in its initial nascent phases a year or so go. Now that Web Assembly is going to become a standard endorsed by the W3C and has backing from at least two...
Three Tech Wishes for 2017
Happy 2017! As we put 2016 in the rearview mirror, we’re all taking a look at the outlook for 2017 as I did here but I wanted to take a more personal angle here and explore what I desperately want to see from the tech community. This list is by no means exhaustive and...
The Javascript Problem
Earlier this week Microsoft unveiled its brand new web programming language Typescript. If you don’t know what Typescript is or what features the language has, please take a look at Anders Hejlsberg’s great introductory video. Also, take a look at the Typescript...
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