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MatthewWid/better-sse - "A dead simple, dependency-less, spec-compliant server-side events implementation for Node, written in TypeScript". I've wanted to try out server-side events as a web sockets alternative for ages. This implementation looks pretty cool. github.com #

Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It - Mike Masnick from Techdirt, who is likely the internet's most knowledgeable person when it comes to moderation, weighs-in on the recent Jack Dorsey - Bluesky flareup. His piece does a great job of highlighting the back story of the whole situation. The only thing I think he misses somewhat is Jack's focus on decentralisation, and soecifucally the lessons learnt from Bitcoin. Censorship resistant tech is very difficult to build, and I'm not sure Bluesky optimises for that. techdirt.com #

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes - No more charges for HTTP 403 (Access Denied) and a few other error codes! aws.amazon.com #

At some point, JavaScript got good - A long time javascript reflects on howvit used to be vs how it is now. It's definitely easier than before with the new primitives. The obsession with Typescript is a bit of a shame in my opinion, much harder to learn, and it's like the community never really gave JS a chance, and now that it's actually pretty good, everyone has moved on to the new shiney. jonbeebe.net #

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use - Back when I was working for film VFX shops, we used virtualisation a lot, though it was Parallels rather than VMWare. Good move by VMWare here, because as they have correctly realised, it's the best way to onboard new users, many of which will later upgrade to a paid license once they have an income from working professionally. theregister.com #