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Meteor Javascript Framework ◉

This feels like it’s worth paying attention to. There’s a ton of great work being done with javascript these days, but most of it’s happening behind closed doors at secretive speculative R&D companies (i.e. “start ups”). Meteor looks like it’s trying to bring these techniques out into the open.

That said, the only distribution (outside of a contextless github account) is one of those weird “download and immediately execute this shell script” things, which is sort of squiky.

Hints of the Coming Agency Technology Crisis ◉

There were two recent episode’s of Jen Simmons’s The Web Ahead podcast where you can start to see the cracks showing in how design/interactive/advertising agencies handle their technology and software design needs, and how that’s trickling down into stressful/futile production situations.

Serializing is Hard ◉

A bit of WTF style fun in a hacker news thread.