Hey folks,

It's a shorter week this week as there's some pies with my name on them. Hope you have a great holiday, wherever and however you celebrate it!

Thinking Too Hard

I don't have a problem with Vanilla JavaScript. I LIKE that the patterns that live there, I'm comfortable with it.

BUT...

I've had a chance recently to dip my toes in to the TypeScript pool and there are parts of Typescript that are really appealing. Yes, types are great BUT the tooling that comes with it... The in-context hints, the ability to jump to definitions. Just great.

So TypeScript as a TOOL is fantastic, as a language I'm still ambivalent (I think largely because I don't directly work in the problem-space that TypeScript helps solve). But it's still early days. Check back in a few weeks and maybe I'll have an entirely different opinion.

Interesting Web Bits

• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis - Viktor advocates for people sharing what's interesting to them.
• How To Boss Without Being Bossy - a breakdown of phrasing when issuing commands.
• This young animator made a mind-boggling animation at only 16 years old!
• What would happen if David Attenborough was narrating your every movement…?
• Someone has ported classic DOS games to be playable in the browser.
• Looks like Apple will adopt the RCS messaging standard
• "Done is the engine of more"