Month: May 2020

Seems like only yesterday that I discovered this strange yet exciting new language for the web. Boy, have we come a very long way since that crude beginning twenty years ago! Thank you so very much for making my life a more enjoyable adventure into the unknown.

"Originally just a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, it was shipped first as a de facto Web standard and eventually became the world's most widely used programming language..."

"...In 2020, the World Wide Web is ubiquitous with over a billion websites accessible from billions of Web-connected devices. Each of those devices runs a Web browser or similar program which is able to process and display pages from those sites. The majority of those pages embed or load source code written in the JavaScript programming language..."

"...In 2020, JavaScript is arguably the world's most broadly deployed programming language."

Read more about it here: JavaScript: The First 20 Years.

I am very excited to announce that I will be giving the following talk at the next Rust Berlin Meetup:

Hope to see you all there!

Every challenge can show you who you are and what you're capable of. The good and the bad.

Not all challenges are desirable, but not all are optional either. Many of them are forced upon us. When they are, we can choose to learn from them.

by Dan Pedersen

Now that I have successfully completed all of the exercises of the Rustlings Course, I'm now well on my way to becoming a happy and proud rustacean.

It has been a long time coming, but I can finally play golf again starting next week. First only nine holes at a time, and hopefully in the not too distant future, a full eighteen holes again.

Cannot touch the flag, ball washers or bunker rakes, the holes have been made shallow so that you can more easily pick out the ball in a hygienic manner, keep social distancing of one and a half meters in place, no padding on the shoulders or shaking hands, and once the round is finished you are expected to go back home immediately.

Stupid coronavirus.

When in doubt just remember that you were always meant to be what you ended up becoming.

If we fail to focus on who we are on the inside, we risk external disintegration from the outside.

Taking a peaceful walk through the Dutch countryside always helps to reset your mind.

At least that sure helps me out a lot.