We really needed new jingles (JS Party #164)

Go Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs!

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Story of the Week

• Faster JavaScript calls in V8
• Blitz.js
• Blitz on JS Party
• Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design

TIL

• Embedding SVG filters directly in CSS
• Accessing hardware devices on the web

Shout Outs

• freeCodeCamp’s DS Curriculum
• swyx on Twitter
• Vite

Miscellany

• We hear Go Time is pretty good
• Watch our live recording on YouTube

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