jlongster

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• There's no excuse to be boring anymore

  by jlongster on 3/7/2025, 3:49 PM with 1 comments

• Build an App on Stripe

  by jlongster on 5/24/2022, 4:19 PM with 3 comments

• Porting a 100% local app to the web

  by jlongster on 12/4/2020, 4:23 PM with 79 comments

• by jlongster on 5/7/2020, 2:08 PM with comments

• The wonderful sound of an atomic commit

  by jlongster on 2/12/2020, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 1/10/2020, 5:39 PM with comments

• Facebook’s Libra Probably Won’t Help People Without Bank Accounts

  by jlongster on 6/27/2019, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

  by jlongster on 6/25/2019, 1:41 PM with 241 comments

• Show HN: Actual Budget, a finance app I built over the last two years

  by jlongster on 1/29/2019, 3:29 PM with 8 comments

• The Horror of Blocking Electron's Main Process

  by jlongster on 2/27/2018, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 2/27/2018, 4:06 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 1/29/2018, 4:07 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 1/23/2018, 2:15 PM with comments

• Balancing Product and Technology

  by jlongster on 1/18/2018, 3:29 PM with 2 comments

• by jlongster on 3/20/2017, 3:45 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 1/10/2017, 3:20 PM with comments

• Implementing a Stepping Debugger in JavaScript

  by jlongster on 5/26/2016, 2:12 PM with 6 comments

• What’s in a Continuation (exploring them in JavaScript)

  by jlongster on 5/24/2016, 1:41 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 5/17/2016, 3:46 PM with comments

• Two Weird Tricks with Redux

  by jlongster on 4/13/2016, 2:49 PM with 33 comments

• Moving Breakpoints Intelligently

  by jlongster on 2/29/2016, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• On the Road to Better Sourcemaps in the Firefox Developer Tools

  by jlongster on 1/12/2016, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 1/11/2016, 3:10 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 12/29/2015, 7:40 PM with comments

• A Simple Way to Route with Redux

  by jlongster on 11/25/2015, 7:22 PM with 54 comments

• Firefox for iOS now available

  by jlongster on 11/12/2015, 3:22 PM with 324 comments

• Immutable Data Structures and JavaScript

  by jlongster on 10/5/2015, 1:36 PM with 70 comments

• Immutable Data Structures and JavaScript

  by jlongster on 10/2/2015, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• The Seasonal Blog Redux (snapshottable UI App States)

  by jlongster on 8/26/2015, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• What to Look Forward to from Firefox OS

  by jlongster on 7/18/2015, 12:08 AM with 0 comments

• Why React Native Is Different

  by jlongster on 5/6/2015, 5:33 PM with 66 comments

• Stop Trying to Catch Me

  by jlongster on 4/7/2015, 7:36 PM with 19 comments

• Live Editing JavaScript with Webpack

  by jlongster on 4/6/2015, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 4/2/2015, 4:08 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 3/19/2015, 2:04 PM with comments

• Back End Apps with Webpack: Part I

  by jlongster on 3/16/2015, 3:45 PM with 34 comments

• First Impressions Using React Native

  by jlongster on 2/6/2015, 4:25 PM with 191 comments

• Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever

  by jlongster on 1/15/2015, 7:16 PM with 80 comments

• by jlongster on 1/8/2015, 6:29 PM with comments

• Transducers.js Round 2 with Benchmarks

  by jlongster on 10/12/2014, 9:04 PM with 18 comments

• Transducers.js: A JavaScript Library for Transformation of Data

  by jlongster on 9/18/2014, 7:57 PM with 20 comments

• Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript

  by jlongster on 9/8/2014, 5:47 PM with 29 comments

• Blog Rebuild: Build Systems and Cross-Compiling

  by jlongster on 8/14/2014, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 8/14/2014, 3:11 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 7/2/2014, 6:06 PM with comments

• EmojiScript: emotion literals, emotional algebra, and more for JavaScript

  by jlongster on 5/30/2014, 1:18 PM with 0 comments

• Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

  by jlongster on 5/13/2014, 2:08 PM with 219 comments

• by jlongster on 3/12/2014, 8:57 PM with comments

• Open-Sourcing My Gambit Scheme iOS Game from 2010

  by jlongster on 3/8/2014, 4:45 PM with 23 comments

• Writing Your First Sweet.js Macro

  by jlongster on 2/11/2014, 6:25 PM with 13 comments

• by jlongster on 2/6/2014, 6:20 PM with comments

• Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead

  by jlongster on 1/8/2014, 6:09 PM with 133 comments

• A Deep Dive into Asynchronous Templating

  by jlongster on 12/4/2013, 6:09 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 12/4/2013, 4:04 PM with comments

• Show HN: Nunjucks – Node templates with inheritance, asynchronous control

  by jlongster on 10/24/2013, 8:36 PM with 10 comments

• The Story of My Desk

  by jlongster on 10/17/2013, 5:06 PM with 105 comments

• by jlongster on 9/24/2013, 6:16 PM with comments

• Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile

  by jlongster on 8/26/2013, 4:52 PM with 41 comments

• A Closer Look at Generators Without Promises

  by jlongster on 6/7/2013, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators

  by jlongster on 6/5/2013, 2:56 PM with 8 comments

• My JSConf Diary

  by jlongster on 5/29/2013, 5:28 PM with 1 comments

• Tearable cloth in asm.js

  by jlongster on 4/24/2013, 5:04 PM with 36 comments

• V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript

  by jlongster on 3/28/2013, 2:15 PM with 30 comments

• Compiling LLJS to asm.js

  by jlongster on 3/25/2013, 4:13 PM with 34 comments

• by jlongster on 3/20/2013, 9:51 PM with comments

• Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

  by jlongster on 3/19/2013, 4:02 PM with 23 comments

• Thoughts on Working Remotely

  by jlongster on 2/27/2013, 4:33 PM with 2 comments

• Going the distance: driving the Tesla Model S in the real world

  by jlongster on 2/12/2013, 5:32 PM with 2 comments

• by jlongster on 1/25/2013, 6:12 PM with comments

• Css-animations.js: create/modify CSS3 keyframe animations from javascript

  by jlongster on 1/4/2013, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 1/3/2013, 6:41 PM with comments

• Reflections on My Github Game Off Experience

  by jlongster on 12/10/2012, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• Implementing client-side prediction for a WebGL-based multiplayer game

  by jlongster on 11/27/2012, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 11/26/2012, 10:03 PM with comments

• Demo of a WebGL multiplayer in-game chat system

  by jlongster on 11/23/2012, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 11/23/2012, 3:44 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 11/20/2012, 10:11 PM with comments

• A new WebGL 3d graphics engine, Shade

  by jlongster on 11/15/2012, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 11/15/2012, 5:44 PM with comments

• Making Web Games #2: Loading Meshes

  by jlongster on 11/9/2012, 11:44 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 11/8/2012, 9:55 PM with comments

• Why sweet.js Matters

  by jlongster on 10/26/2012, 5:37 PM with 5 comments

• by jlongster on 10/26/2012, 3:22 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 10/11/2012, 8:34 PM with comments

• by jlongster on 10/5/2012, 7:33 PM with comments

• Show HN: nunjucks, a better templating system for javascript (jinja2 inspired)

  by jlongster on 9/20/2012, 5:11 PM with 15 comments

• The Rise of the Mobile Web (and Web Audio on iOS 6)

  by jlongster on 9/12/2012, 5:19 PM with 2 comments

• Ahoy: Adventures in the Internet with real-time HTML/CSS editing

  by jlongster on 7/19/2012, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• by jlongster on 7/17/2012, 5:12 PM with comments

• A real-time collaborative HTML/CSS editor

  by jlongster on 7/16/2012, 8:46 PM with 30 comments

• Construct.js: simple sugar for prototype-based inheritance in javascript

  by jlongster on 6/13/2012, 8:28 PM with 0 comments

• Let’s talk about password storage

  by jlongster on 6/8/2012, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• Compiling to CPS Javascript (part 2): stepping debuggers, no callback hell, etc

  by jlongster on 5/22/2012, 5:09 PM with 1 comments

• by jlongster on 5/21/2012, 7:32 PM with comments

• Compiling To Javascript In Continuation Passing Style, Can We Optimize?

  by jlongster on 5/11/2012, 6:10 PM with 29 comments

• Dcpu-lisp: a static Lisp that compiles to DCPU-16

  by jlongster on 4/20/2012, 6:55 PM with 17 comments

• Experimenting with Debugging Languages in the Browser

  by jlongster on 3/21/2012, 10:25 PM with 2 comments

• Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read

  by jlongster on 2/18/2012, 6:27 PM with 99 comments

• Outlet: new Lisp that compiles js/lua with eval and debugging

  by jlongster on 2/16/2012, 4:36 PM with 10 comments

• Task.js: Beautiful Concurrency for Javascript

  by jlongster on 2/2/2012, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• Mozilla blacks out

  by jlongster on 1/18/2012, 1:47 PM with 6 comments

• Roadmap for the Outlet language (and: why Lisp syntax?)

  by jlongster on 1/10/2012, 4:20 PM with 2 comments

• Outlet Live Demo (compiles to javascript and lua)

  by jlongster on 1/7/2012, 7:07 AM with 0 comments

• Outlet: My Lisp to Javascript Experiment

  by jlongster on 1/5/2012, 8:40 PM with 2 comments

• Flame: My 2d Game Experiment

  by jlongster on 12/30/2011, 6:27 PM with 0 comments

• Rotating Webpages with a Gamepad

  by jlongster on 12/29/2011, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Rotating Webpages with a Gamepad

  by jlongster on 12/28/2011, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• A Study of Church Numerals

  by jlongster on 12/16/2011, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Going Fullscreen with Canvas

  by jlongster on 11/21/2011, 5:20 PM with 21 comments

• dom3d: Rendering 3D with CSS3

  by jlongster on 5/24/2011, 9:30 PM with 24 comments

• by jlongster on 5/24/2011, 7:52 PM with comments

• Firefox 4 RC now available

  by jlongster on 3/9/2011, 11:11 PM with 116 comments

• Why Emacs is great - SLIME repl for developing in-browser javascript

  by jlongster on 11/29/2010, 7:58 PM with 23 comments

• Scheme is also dead on the iPhone

  by jlongster on 4/9/2010, 6:27 PM with 51 comments

• Emailing Adobe Ideas to Posterous (automatic PDF-PNG conversion)

  by jlongster on 4/9/2010, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• Scheme hits the App Store again

  by jlongster on 4/5/2010, 9:21 PM with 4 comments

• Switching from Scheme to Python

  by jlongster on 4/1/2010, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Why I Hate Scheme

  by jlongster on 3/15/2010, 7:19 PM with 28 comments

• Ask HN: How should I pursue my passion?

  by jlongster on 2/24/2010, 6:23 PM with 17 comments

• Profiling compiled Gambit Scheme code

  by jlongster on 2/17/2010, 11:26 PM with 0 comments

• Growing Your Development Environment

  by jlongster on 2/16/2010, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• The painful state of fonts with OpenGL(ES)

  by jlongster on 2/9/2010, 10:15 PM with 0 comments

• Sneak Peek of My 3d Scheme Game (and request for support)

  by jlongster on 2/4/2010, 1:47 AM with 14 comments

• Tweening and Interpolating OpenGL Objects with Scheme

  by jlongster on 1/30/2010, 2:37 AM with 3 comments

• Clojure and Incremental Development

  by jlongster on 1/28/2010, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• Even more Scheme on the iPhone: real-time development in Emacs

  by jlongster on 9/9/2009, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• Cool physics app and 3d modeling optimizations in Scheme on the iPhone

  by jlongster on 8/3/2009, 7:24 PM with 0 comments

• The Scheme Language, and Using it on the iPhone [slideshow]

  by jlongster on 7/27/2009, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• Why use Gambit Scheme for application development?

  by jlongster on 7/21/2009, 10:17 PM with 0 comments

• Touch and accelerometer functionality available for Scheme on the iPhone

  by jlongster on 7/20/2009, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• HN: I just started my own company, any recommended task management software?

  by jlongster on 7/16/2009, 3:09 PM with 9 comments

• Now with Scheme on the iPhone, lets hook up a realtime REPL for debugging [VID]

  by jlongster on 7/7/2009, 7:14 PM with 0 comments

• Remotely debugging your iPhone Scheme apps with a REPL

  by jlongster on 7/6/2009, 8:11 PM with 0 comments

• Writing apps for the iPhone in Scheme

  by jlongster on 6/17/2009, 8:14 PM with 14 comments

• Mona Lisa genetically drawn from Scheme

  by jlongster on 6/10/2009, 8:03 PM with 1 comments