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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jessica Sachs – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Take the OWA survey ASAP!
• It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
• Arc from The Browser Company
• LLRT: Amazon’s new JS runtime
• QuickJS
• Introducing Tempo • A new date library for JS/TS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Vercel (00:00:46)

https://vercel.com/changelogpod

3. Welcome, friends! (00:03:28)

4. Welcoming Jess to the pod (00:04:22)

5. A game of 20 (15) questions (00:05:11)

6. 1: Shipping a bug to prod (00:06:01)

7. 2: Debunked web dev myth (00:08:11)

8. 3: Why TS sucks, Nick (00:08:43)

9. 4: Pick a frontend framework (00:08:59)

10. 5: Fav JS Party panelist (00:10:09)

11. 6: Debugging help (00:10:48)

12. 7: Non-tech career choice (00:12:57)

13. 8: Fav place to code (00:13:46)

14. 9: Best place visited (00:15:24)

15. 10: How many languages? (00:18:15)

16. List comprehensions! (00:21:53)

17. 11: Read your fav line of code (00:22:40)

18. 12: Read your bank password (00:24:29)

19. 13: Been juggling lately? (00:25:11)

20. 14: Why can't Jerod count? (00:31:11)

21. 15: Make JS Party even greater (00:31:12)

22. Sponsor: PowerSync (00:32:16)

https://www.powersync.com/changelog

23. Apple kills EU web apps (00:35:49)

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

24. We should start a browser (00:51:20)

25. The Browser Company (00:52:21)

26. The OWA survey (00:55:53)

https://forms.gle/oD8chWN1oQzN6s5aA

27. Choose your own adventure (00:57:24)

28. LLRT & QuickJS (00:57:54)

https://github.com/awslabs/llrt

29. Chris gets the final word (01:10:28)

30. Wrapping up (01:10:57)

31. Outro (join ++!) (01:11:43)

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