Simon Plenderleith

On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.

Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!

On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.

Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/

#InternetHistory

Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
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I am looking for a full-time job.

Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.

If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

Online on a weekend? You can grab access to my web components course for $25 today and tomorrow. Big ol’ discount. Use the code OCT25-26.

(And as usual, if you need further accommodation, just use the email form and we’ll work it out.)

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Built-in HTTP proxies are now on v22 😇

(Going to update the version mentions in a WIP guide on using Node.js in enterprise network environments)

Very clever how we've effectively made AWS a single point of failure for most of the Internet.

You're assuming there's still a team there 🙃

Petition for a global agreement where all coffee shops paint their WiFi details on the ceiling.

Messenger It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

messenger.abeto.co

This is freaking insane. The level of polish necessary for this visual fidelity and it all runs flawlessly on mobile. Hats off.

Who's having conversations about how we can mitigate and reduce the ways in which "AI" is undermining labor markets?

These are the conversations I want to hear and be a part of.

But mostly my use case is because I care a lot about data privacy and security. We run so much untrusted software randomly on our machines. I want everything locked down in a way that works for me personally.

Always.

Also, hello again!

Nexus?

I would love it if all operating systems (mobile or otherwise) supported toggling system authentication (biometric/password) when opening an app on a per app basis.

No need for most app developers to even implement anything, and this would be a huge security boost for everyone.

This October I'll be doing #October.

Each day of the month I'll be living my life as normal and taking on no extra work. 🙌🏻

Whimsical Animations Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Next week's TC39 meeting has a packed agenda:

🔼 Amount
🔼 Array.prototype.pushAll
🔶 AsyncContext
🔶 Await Dictionary
🔼 Import Bytes
🔶 Intl Era Month Code
🔼 Iterator Chunking
🔶 new Global()
🔼 Non-extensible applies to private
🔼 Promise Adoption
🔼 Promise Predicate
🔶 Temporal

Yeah, for sure, I can see that's a little rough. It's literally lacking in context heh.

Nice use case! I'm optimistic about local ML/LLM implementations.

This is so cool to see! Looks great too. Congratulations! ☺️

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Absolutely! Will DM you :)

CascadiaJS 2025 | Sept 18 - 19 | Seattle, WA CascadiaJS 2025 is coming up Sept 18 - 19 in Seattle, WA!

It's in Seattle, btw. Full details and speaker lineup here:

cascadiajs.com/2025

I have a free @cascadiajs.com ticket! 🎟️

I won this but am now volunteering, so I'd love to give it to a software engineer actively looking for their next role.

The conference is this Thursday & Friday (Sept 18-19). If you can definitely make it, reply to this post! First to message gets it.

Breaking the Law by Judas Priest is playing in my head 😂

I'm back in SF and actively searching the streets for Wily. If you see her, DO NOT approach her, just call me: 4152185520.

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Always the worst part of getting home from a trip.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.