7 pounds of news in a 5 pound bag (JS Party #246)

Hang with Jerod, Nick & KBall while we discuss what’s new & noteworthy in the web world. Cloudflare Turnstile, Linkify 4.0, TC39 updates, the Figma acquisition, Penpot, pay transparency, and more! We might even discuss TypeScript if Nick gets his way…

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Nick finished a transition to Vite
• Jerod shipped chapters support
• KBall shipped…
• Cloudflare announces Turnstile
• Updates from the 92nd TC39 meeting
  • Extractors
  • Array.fromAsync
• Linkify v4.0
  • 😱 Obsidian plugin
• Figma acquisition
  • Figjam
• Penpot SVG-based figma alternative?
  • open source on GitHub
• California pay transparency law
• TypeScript 4.9 beta satisfies

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!