James Burke

woman with shell necklace and a redirects belt accessory

it's happening!!!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!

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A documentary about the radicalization of American youth titled The Summer I Turned Shitty.

Sure boss. I don’t know what “accountable” means but I’d love to be held.

Alright, see you in ten minutes, everyone. Come ask me some questions about JavaScript for Everyone, what my whole deal is, how dare I, etc.

www.youtube.com/live/ajW3R5l... or www.twitch.tv/wiltostreams — whichever is your druthers.

New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job

nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...

Great article about Wasm at 10:

“In these 10 years, we have seen claims that WebAssembly will replace JavaScript, Docker, Linux, and several minor deities”

“Wasm works well where isolation is needed between different program parts written by different people”

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

in case you missed it, "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" came out yesterday!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

removing dependencies to something like this is such a developer high

ITS HAPPENING

Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

Big ass cargo ship with loads of containers stuck nose first a few meters away from a hut at a Norwegian fjord.

something something kubernetes at home

Screenshot of https://blog.lmarena.ai/blog/2025/webdev-arena/ showing the system prompt, which includes: > You are an expert frontend React engineer > - Create a React component for whatever the user asked you to create > - Use Tailwind classes for styling.

Is the WebDev Arena truly measuring webdev coding ability?

This ML coding benchmark *requires* React/Tailwind and completely breaks with vanilla JS/other frameworks.
The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of frontend web development are rather troublesome.

“you’re overthinking it” well god forbid I have a hobby

jquery for holodeck

Old news footage shot of shoreline with text reading: "COMING UP: MORE PROBLEMS"

need product differentiation?

overhire a #CSS front-end team and ask them to:
- polish whatever
- add delight wherever

and watch as your product becomes smooth and buttery while everyone else's gather dust and crust

UI is a huge space offering differentiation via quality

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research' A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

www.404media.co/someone-made...

I hope bluesky adds setting for timed auto post deletion. I prefer to just have mine exist for a couple months then delete. There are offline/third party tools for it, but prefer something built in. (fine w/caveats that deletes aren’t absolute: firehouse capture would still get them for example)