Brûlons les musées

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1. Brûlons les musées @fat Apr 2012

2. I work at twitter

3. I write libraries

4. Bootstrap Ender Hogan

5. I sometimes read books

6. Futurism and Dada

7. None

8. Eliminating the past

9. Early 20th Century telephones automobiles airplains

10. We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by

    a new beauty: the beauty of speed. Filippo Marinetti
11. None

12. Italian Anarchists with bombs

13. Destroy everything that is past, and amidst the wild ecstasy

    of destruction, let man be reborn as a child, a hero, and a free denizen of the future. Dezso Szabo

14. The Great War or The End of Futurism

15. Then there was dada

16. None

17. WWI and Zurich, Switzerland

18. Not relieved. Furious.

19. Cabaret Voltaire and Hugo Ball

20. None

21. We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only

    that which everyone knows by heart. Hugo Ball

22. But I write libraries...

23. Why would he say that?

24. The end of prehistory and the start of history.

25. a futurist sentiment?

26. The Programming Library

27. Wexelblat, Richard (1981). History of Programming Languages

28. None

29. I’d whistle at Dick and say, “Can I have your

    sine subroutine?” and I’d copy it out of his notebook. Grace Murray Hopper

30. As early as 1944 we started putting together things which

    would make it easier to write more accurate programs and get them written faster. Grace Murray Hopper

31. Wheeler, Wilkes, and Gill designed a set of subroutines for

    a computer before it was implemented, and there was for the first time an available set of mathematical subroutines which were more or less standardized in the way you put data into them and the way you got data out of them, and made it possible to begin to write programs a little more rapidly. Grace Murray Hopper

32. As I went along in the process of standardizing the

    subroutines, I recognized something else was happening in the prgramming group. We were using subroutines. We were copying routines from one program into another. Two things wrong with that: programmers are lousy adders. Programmers are lousy copyists (B’s turned into 13’s, 4’s into A’s). It therefore seemed sensible instead of having programmers copy the subroutines, to have the computer copy the subroutines. Out of that came the A-0 compiler. Grace Murray Hopper

33. hugo ball + 1/2 century = programming libraries

34. We’ve been using these “libraries” for about 50 years

35. What if we really started over?

36. Jacob Thornton @fat 22 Feb New Interview question: You have

    45 minutes to write jQuery from scratch. Get as far as you can. Start from wherever you’d like.

37. Rey Bango @reybango 22 feb @fat You’re sssssooo evil :)

38. Instinctually you’d say we’re screwed

39. The whiteboards would also suggest we’re screwed

40. But what if we just tried it anyways

41. First Attempt Qwery Bean Bonzo

42. smaller, more focused apis

43. Horse ebooks @horse_ebooks 15 mar (Dalton) Dangerous at all Times

    and Usually Wholly Unnecessary.

44. Usually Wholly Unnecessary

45. Turns out it’s really hard to just start over

46. particularlly when starting only from what you know by heart

47. Is there a path forward?

48. yeah bro tests!

49. Second Attempt hogan.js

50. Mustache doing it right \o/

51. improved perf + smaller lib size all around

52. mustache.js changes their ways

53. None

54. Why would Hugo say that?

55. Because things get better for everyone

56. Why aren’t we sharing all our tests? Why is this

    not a thing?

57. selector engines? dom utilities? less? events? xhr? futures? etc.

58. What if going forward we defined a library not by

    it’s implementation, but by it’s test suite?

59. We should burn all “libraries” and allow to remain only

    their test suites. @fat

60. thank you <3