Glynn Bird

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Farewell CJS. You are no longer required.
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New post: 'Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages' https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/

Some thoughts that sprang from a recent Mastodon thread: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/113340900722953634

Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages

I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript that I’m reluctant …

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Finally! @couchdb 3.4.1 has been released! We’ve been working on this for quite some time and I’m beyond thrilled you can now all try it out all the good stuff we put into it.

https://blog.couchdb.org/2024/09/27/3-4-1/

It’s a .1 because of the safe-to-upgrade discussion from the other day: https://narrativ.es/@janl/113199381004547488

Also, for the first time we are publishing for everyone, the @neighbourhoodie CouchDB guidance that interprets the release for our customers.

https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/09/23/couchdb-3-4-1-released

3.4.1

Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.4.1 has been released and is available for download. It is a feature and bugfix release, and was originally published on 2024-09-27. 3.4.1? — What happen…

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I'm developing an editor for note-taking and I'd love some feedback.

https://nestedtext.com

🧵 I think it's neat because…