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A brief history of specifiers and protocols
If you're running JavaScript on a server, how do you import a module? Traditionally, imports looked like this, with CommonJS:
const axios = require('axios');But now they look like this with ECMAScript Modules:
import axios from 'axios';
// Or, less often, dynamically:
const axios = await import('axios');However, there's another layer of complexity: import specifiers.
2021: Node.js introduces the node: protocolI think the first kind of specifier for a real runtime - and I'll be specific about that because the Webpack bundler supported a tremendous variety of import styles before this - was Node.js, in 2021 when they introduced the node: protocol.
Before the node: protocol...
2025 Year in Review
Well, nearly another year in the books. How did it go?
It's genuinely surprising to me how consistent my reading stays year-over-year. I don't set reading goals or have a predictable pace, and every year has at least a month in which I'm reading nothing, my momentum growth to a halt. But at the end of every year, it's range-bound between 19 and 22 for the past five years.
The count is 19 at the moment, but I'm reading a fast-paced sci-fi so it'll probably be 20 by the end of the year.
A Confederacy of Dunces was easily the most entertaining book...
Summary of changes for November 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Thousand Rooms, added an English version with one type of dyslexia-friendly typeface. A Danish version is also on the way. Orca, improved the interface, released an Orca Cheatsheet for an upcoming workshop, and increased the parity between Orca versions with new tests. Drifblim, implemented a tug-o-war(Mastodon) memory model. Punk Rabbits, completed 8 new rabbits(#57-64). Uxn, wrote a standalone Uxn REPL, and improved Uxn5. M291, fixed an annoying crashing bug.This month, we celebrate Hundred Rabbit's 10...
Recently
This'll be the last Recently in 2025. It's been a decent year for me, a pretty rough year for the rest of the world. I hope, for everyone, that 2026 sees the reversal of some of the current trends.
WatchingThis video from Daniel Yang, who makes spectacular bikes of his own, covers a lot of the economics of being a bike-builder, which are all pretty rough. I felt a lot of resonance with Whit: when I ran a business I always felt like it was tough to be commercial about it, and had to fight my own instincts to over engineer...
A table and a trained host on every street – blog by Imogen
Through Autumn we hosted hybrid Talkaoke Hosting session in collaboration with In Situ – our partners in Pendle. It was a brilliant opportunity for us to not only refine our teaching approach but also to reflect on our methodology – something we rarely have a chance to do. One of the participants and a new talented Talkaoke host in the making is Imogen, who shared her thoughts in the blog below.
“I first stumbled across the Talkaoke table at the Supernormal Festival in 2016. Slap bang in the middle of a field and fresh off the burning embers of the Brexit...
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
It's the end of 2025, which means that I'm closing in on three years at Val Town. I haven't written much about the company or what it's really been like. The real story of companies is usually told well after years after the dust has settled. Founders usually tell a heroic story of success while they're building.
Reading startup news really warps your perspective, especially when you're building a startup yourself. Everyone else is getting fabulously rich! It makes me less eager to write about anything.
But I'm incurably honest and like working with people who are too. Steve, the first founder...
Summary of changes for October 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
CCCC, added a factorization mode. Bagel, wrote about a cursed programming language idea where instead of cons cells, s-exp represent unordered lists. Rabbit Waves, released a new page called Celestial Compass, and added a button for those who wish to link to the website from theirs. Punk Rabbits, completed 2 new rabbits(#55 and 56).We sailed Pino back to Victoria before heading east for AMP Festival 2025. The venue was packed! The Aliceffekt show(YouTube) started with a bit...
Recently
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn't yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I did earlier this year. Next year I'm thinking about training at a normal mileage for the kinds of races I'm running - 25 miles or so per week instead of this year's roughly 15.
And speaking of running, I just wrote up this opinion I have about how fewer people should run marathons.
ReadingI enjoyed reading Why Functor Doesn't Matter, but I don't really...