Douglas Crockford @douglascrockford@layer8.space

Humans are not the only species with language, but we are the only species that talks about it.

Programmers like to take synonyms and force them to mean completely different things. "string" and "thread", for example.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3075874

If you google "desktop" you don't see furniture.

https://www.crockford.com/20js.html

The natural way to handle eventuality in JavaScript is with callbacks. Unfortunately, inadequately trained coders created Callback Hell. So Promises were added, and then Async Await. That has made things worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Nh350b6S4

Since FORTRAN, we have had digits in variable names. This was to support the mathematical practice of variable names that are short, cryptic, and lazy.

I just noticed that I do not use digits in my best programs. Is the use of digits in variable names a bad practice? Would it be best to limit ourselves to letters and the occasional underbar?

Are digits in variable names

The toLocaleUpperCase problem: https://www.crockford.com/turkish.html

Dilbert takes on China.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-11-24

https://usesthis.com/interviews/douglas.crockford/

https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/mjs-132-douglas-crockford/

https://xkcd.com/2228/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgETMYsmmtU

When things are getting tough, and you feel like giving up,
just say to yourself:

There is no I in quit!

Now get back in there and shut up.

These are instructional videos that will show you how to build a 3D JSON logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOoSzFJmsP8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Jqb4dIV9g

https://youtu.be/TjVcVWB0oFk

Free as in beer belly.

https://www.crockford.com/linebreaking.html

https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-392-the-murky-past-and-misty-future-of-javascript-with-douglas-crockford/

https://www.crockford.com/got.html