This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-23)
In this week’s edition:
Holiday edition - Elon’s actually quite interesting backstory, the Beatles, the year of AI, Kasparov & freedom, javascript upcoming new features, and some quality bitcoin stuff.
Issue details:
Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
Today’s links:
Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer required to read posts - That took a while, but at least you can view posts on the web now. For example here’s last week’s newsletter issue #146 announcement. bsky.app #
Alternate Futures for "Web Components" - Carlana makes the case that though Web Components were released a decade ago and still haven't really made a big impact, the general idea of moving functionality into the browser is worthwhile pursuit. Based on how developers are currently building apps using 3rd party libraries, perhaps some primitives implementing reactivity, optimised DOM rendering, and self-sizing iframes would be better places to start. blog.carlana.net #
🚀 Latest Newsletter: Nutritious Tech (Issue #146) markjgsmith.com #
How Christmas pudding tried to 'save' the British Empire - It's been so many years since I had Christmas pudding. I distinctly remember hating it when I was young, but it's funny how your tastes change as you get older. Eventually it was one of my favorite things about Christmas. And of course mince pies too. www.bbc.com #
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