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...
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...
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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