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Scott Riley @scott.is · 1d

This is gonna fuckin rule

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.

The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.

Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

JavaScript for Everyone. A new course by Mat Marquis. Launching in 7 days

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 17h

_never_

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 20h

As of the next regularly-scheduled stream, the course will be out.

I may or may not just play Mega Man 2.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 21h

Half an hour until the final newsletter stream before launch, and unlike most of them, I have a _plan_ for this one. I have a handful of interview questions to answer and could use more.

So, come join and—with some trepidation—ask me anything.

youtube.com/live/uKoIosx...
www.twitch.tv/wiltostreams

Writing the JavaScript for Everyone Newsletter - Issue #11: LAUNCH DAY

Come join me while I write the behind-the-scenes newsletter for my upcoming course: JavaScript for Everyone. Tune in if you want to talk JavaScript, general webdev, and retro-future design aesthetics ...

youtube.com

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Leanne Renard @leannerenard.co.uk · 1d

Can't wait for this to ship... This course by @wil.to is genuinely incredible! The setup/theme system kept me hella busy, so I'm excited to finally see this in the wild.

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.

The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.

Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

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Jason Bradberry @jasonbradberry.bsky.social · 1d

I've loved working on this. It's a brilliant course, hats off to @wil.to.

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.

The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.

Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 2d

I've read every single word of this course and let me tell ya, it's impeccable.

@wil.to’s knowledge of JavaScript is something else, but that's not the best part: it's the way he *explains* JavaScript.

I do rectangles — I started as a designer — and my JavaScript knowledge *now* is unrecognisable.

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.

The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.

Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.

The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.

Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 3d

It's always in the last place you look (hell).

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 4d

Ah, so that’s where Prof. Skelebone went last year: lost in the couch cushions.

A couch seen through a porch railing. The head and arms of a 12 foot skeleton are emerging from between the cushions.

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Eric Portis @ericportis.com · 6d

If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

alice.boxhall.au

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horsejs.com @horsejs.com · 5d

At long last, the time has arrived to put the finishing touches on JavaScript

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 5d

Oh, it's even more cursed than that. It's a course—I'm _molding minds_.

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asker the gauche, glycojohn destroyer of carbs @johnbender.bsky.social · 5d

I have to say following tweets about this book for the last few months has given me a sense that it has a necronomiconesque quality, filled to the overflowing with eldritch knowledge and horrors (and as I write this it occurs me that may be altogether appropriate given the actual subject matter)

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 5d

there's no law that says i can't say things like "rime-wreathed" in a thing about javascript

you see if i don't mention "aether" or some shit too

i am very tired

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 5d

First Silksong, now Act III.

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen

2 track album

theprotomen.bandcamp.com

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 5d

[ WAH-WAH-WAAAAHH ]

Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 5d

At long last, the time has arrived to put the finishing touches on JavaScript for Everyone.

Let’s see; airhorns.midi, airhorns.midi… gotta be one out there somewhere, yeah?

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 6d

do not spoil literally any part of hades II for me please i will not be starting it until i both finish writing this course _and_ act three of Dark Souls Eldritch Mega Bug Zero Celeste 2025: Silksong

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 6d

> Break the the causal arrow of time across your knee — death to Chronos! Not only have we freed ourselves from the cruel marches of both linear time and the call stack, but they are now ours to weave into and out of at will.

the hell i won't

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 6d

I will not conclude the `async`/`await` lesson with “death to Chronos.”
I will not conclude the `async`/`await` lesson with “death to Chronos.”
I will not conclude the `async`/`await` lesson with “death to Chronos.”
I will not concl

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 8d

One of the very first sentences I wrote for JavaScript for Everyone was “JavaScript can struggle to escape the entities that dwell within the astral planes, but don't we all” and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 8d

Ok folks, this is the last reminder about Mindful Design pre-orders. Once today is over, that's it and the cheapest it'll be (aside from PPP) won't happen again!

piccalil.li/mindful-design

Mindful Design

A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

piccalil.li

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Vale @vale.rocks · 11d

Something I'd like to try my hand at is giving a proper conference talk. I'm brimming with ideas, and speaking arrangements seem like the natural next thing for me to do.

Certainly difficult as someone who lives in Western Australia, but something that I'd like to pursue nonetheless.

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