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February 2024

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

Modern Web Applications with HTMX

— Ted Patrick (@__ted__)

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2020 → 2024

Where did we leave off?

Last time BEW met in person was:

→ February 26, 2020!

What was even going on back then?

Covid

This was happening.

Jan 30: First recorded instance of person-to-person spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. (total cases = 7). Feb 6: First novel coronavirus related death recorded in the US. Feb 11: WHO announces the official name for the disease: “COVID-19”

Trump

This guy was president.

He was impeached (for the first time) and acquitted Feb 5. We were still 9 months from the election, and 11 months from the Jan 6 attack...

Bernie

This guy was the leading challenger.

Won most votes in the Iowa caucus on Feb 3.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Parasite

Kobe Bryant

Afghanistan

Chiefs with the Super Bowl

Other notable milestones...

Feb 14: Sonic the Hedgehog opened on Valentine's Day and would gross $148MM
Feb 9: Parasite is the first non-English film to win the Best Picture Oscar
Feb 24: Memorial service for Kobe Bryant held
Feb 29: US and Taliban sign deal to end 18-year war in Afghanistan
Feb 2: The Chiefs beat SF in the Super Bowl LIV (54). Well, some things haven't changed :)

News from the
Bleeding Edge

How about browsers?

Browsers in February 2020:

Chrome: version 80
Firefox: version 73
Safari: version 13

How about browsers?

Browsers in February 2024:

Chrome: version 80 → 121 (+41)
Firefox: version 73 → 123 (+50)
Safari: version 13 → 17 (+4)

So... not going to summarize 95 releases today :)

A Few Random Updates

RedwoodJS v7.0

"Focus on building your startup, not fighting your framework."
React + GraphQL + Prisma + TS + Jest + Storybook
v7.0 adds Redwood Studio, GraphQL Realtime & Fragments, Sentry integration, and more

jQuery 4.0.0 BETA !!

Goodbye IE < 11
Removed a bunch of deprecated APIs
Migrated source from AMD to ES modules
jQuery is dead... long live jQuery!

Backbone 1.6.0 !!

A few random things :)
Backbone is dead... long live Backbone!

Meet Rocket Turtle

The new Node.js mascot (interesting back story)

Rocket Turtle

ASCII Theater

Stream free text-based movies in your terminal

ASCII Theater

Reset

There's so much more we could talk about...
Bun, Deno, Vite, Astro, Svelte, Next.js, ...
The list goes on
Back to our regular updates next time :)

Thanks!

Brian Moeskau

moeskau.com
edgeATX.org / slides

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