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In the land of the JavaScripters

In the land of the JavaScripters

A 10-sonnet series that celebrates the people and the culture of JavaScript, and looks at the influence of JSConfs on the web development community and its evolution. Told from the perspective of a digital immigrant who doesn't write code, though I have lived and worked among JavaScripters for the last twenty 20 years.

havi hoffman

June 02, 2019
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  1. JS In the land of the JavaScripters Havi Hoffman |

    Mozilla 2 June 2019 JSConfEU | Berlin https://2019.jsconf.eu/sonnets
  2. Visualization of Lorenz’s strange attractor, or butterfly effect, in which

    a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
  3. At our events we will not tolerate Harassment of participants

    in any form. Photo: Hopper Stone, Detroit Free Press , a scene from “Hidden Figures”
  4. The sonnet is a poem of fourteen line, “Give me

    your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...”
  5. The immigrant who puts down roots but never learns the

    language. That’s JavaScript and me.
  6. xo “When a number of people come together, and if

    these people are harmonized in a certain way, excluding some who make for disharmony - we have what we call an event. “ Idries Shah, “The Story of Mushkil Gusha” thank you | danke @freshelectrons https://medium.com/@freshelectrons [email protected]
  7. Resources & image credits • @jsconfeu - #42 JSConf very

    nearly didn’t happen https://twitter.com/jsconfeu/status/1099945357620981761 • An introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets — The British Library - public domain https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-shakespeares-sonnets • Day 2 “Expert Panel” by Aaron Gustafson - 2006 - CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/aarongustafson/278796471/ • Petrarca Queriniano incunable https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/petrarca-queriniano-facsimile • Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter - TEDEd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4 • Jan Lehnardt: JSConf History - JSConf US Last Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XmTjeIk5k
  8. • Chris Williams: Disconnect, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7LchINN7lU • Michael van Meer.

    Album Amicorum / Stam Boek Paintings of London in the friendship album of Michael van Meer, c. 1614-1615 https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-virginian-indian-in-st-jamess-park-from-the- friendship-album-of-michael-van-meer • Photo from Hidden Figures from Hopper Stone, Detroit Free Press https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/01/14/hidden-figures-film- has-lessons-educators/96416028/ • The Jewish Woman Who Gave Life to Lady Liberty by Chen Malul https://blog.nli.org.il/en/emma_lazarus2/ Resources & image credits
  9. • Nothing Fails Like Success: https://alistapart.com/article/nothing-fails-like-success/ • Carole Cadwalladr -

    Facebook’s role in Brexit - TED 2019 https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_thethreat _to_democracy • If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript https://anguscroll.com/hemingway/ • John McCarthy https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/science/26mccarthy.html • Everyday Chaos by David Weinberger - https://everydaychaosbook.com/ • JSHeroes photo by Istvan ‘Flaki’ Szmozsanszky @slsoftworks • Global Diversity CFP Day - https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/ • The Lorenz Attractor, a thing of beauty http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lorenz/ • Lorenz attractor - created for Wikimedia Commons by User:Wikimol and Image:Lorenz attractor.svg by User:Dschwen (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Resources & image credits
  10. • Slide design by Mike McFarland Design • Robot mascot

    by Virginia Poltrack • Resources & image credits
  11. John McCarthy was not trolling when he said these are

    We’d need to program to talk to the servants.