Saturday 28th May, 2022 - Transitioning empires

Another week of great javascript, tech and web development links

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Another season 2 instalment…

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Minimal commentary this week, just the links, podcasts and a blog post I wrote:

• Budism vs Christianity - WTF World?

I did a bunch of reading about how we got from Roman rule to modern day Britain via German tribe invasions and mass migration. And also how after that it was basically constant religious wars for hundreds of years in France.

• End of Roman Rule in Britain

• Anglo-Saxon Settlement of Britain

• History of Anglo-Saxon England

• French Wars of Religion

I spent a few hours reading through these, at times totally absorbed, other times the articles go on far too long and my interest waned, and I just skipped through quite a lot.

It’s fascinating how the style of surnames changes dramatically over time, and how a transition from one empire to another actually happens in practice. It takes a really long time, people need to learn a totally different language, become bilingual, change religions, etc. It’s mind blowing.

Ok enough history, time for the  podcasts and links:

Podcasts

• Is it weird for an adult to have imaginary friends? (No Stupid Questions Podcast)

• The 3rd year of the 3rd Age of JS (JS Party Podcast)

• What’s in a surname? (Stuff You Should Know Podcast)

• Building a Technology, Twitter Driven Development, Deciding on a Blog Topic Ep #516 (Shop Talk Show Podcast)

• How labor unions shape society (TED Daily Podcast)

• Classic Desert Island Disks - George Michael (Desert Island Disks Podcast)

• Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan (Lex Fridman Podcast)

• El Salvador: The Whole Story with Jack Mallers (What Bitcoin Did Podcast)

• Stories of Startup Survival Mode (a16z Podcast)

Links

• Deploying Node-RED to Google App Engine

• Working with Different Filesystems (NodeJS)

• Chinese use blockchain and NFTs to evade censorship

• Top Stablecoins Shed $7B In May As Traders Redeem Tokens En Masse

• Wikipedia Over WhatsApp

• Charles and Camilla to star in jubilee EastEnders episode

• When might the inflation rate come down?

• Nigeria's facial scars: The last generation

• The 3rd age of Javascript

• Chris Coyier on Twitter: "JavaScript in 2021? What's going on?

• Russian Ruble is World’s Best Currency This Year

• Feather wiki - Super quick 1 page wiki

• Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS

• Functional Core, Imperative Shell

• Layouts RFC - Server-side components from Next.js

• Starlink for RVs (HN Thread)

• yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea (Wil Weahton) - a.k.a Wesley Crusher from Star Trek Next Generation

• The balance has shifted away from SPAs

• What happened to Perl 7?

That’s all from me…

Best reguards,

Mark

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