You’ve all been very good this year so I’m going to give each one of you a working TEC-1 for Christmas. Enjoy!

https://jhlagado.github.io/wicked-tec1

https://vimeo.com/130171287

“We running a business here. Can’t have homeless people out here like that. We got geeks. They’re scaring folks.”

Precious, precious, precious fucking geeks.

https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/inside-google-s-ugly-war-against-the-homeless-in-la

Ten years and a lot of things have changed.

Ten years and a lot of things have changed. Pretty much everything is a Webkit fork. Firefox is being kept alive with Google money.

Kyle Simpson @getify giving the best talk I saw at YOW!

Kyle Simpson @getify giving the best talk I saw at YOW! Melbourne. Although Kyle has written extensively about the front end, especially in his You Don’t Know JS series and his excellent Functional-Lite JavaScript, this talk is relevant to all systems that use asynchronicity and that means pretty much all systems.

Asynchronous systems need cancellation and cancellation should be understood as system state rather than just an event that sometimes happens.

You can see the slides to his talk here: https://speakerdeck.com/getify/cancel-all-my-appointments

Fantastic news.

Fantastic news. Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10. Now all major browsers will be open source.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10

All the standard array and stream operators, map, filter, etc are reducers under the hood.

All the standard array and stream operators, map, filter, etc are reducers under the hood. But how do you efficiently compose them? Reducers have a different shape (a, i) => j from easily composable functions. The answer is transducers, a transducer is a high order reducer ie: (reducer) => reducer.

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/transducers-efficient-data-processing-pipelines-in-javascript-7985330fe73d