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**Mikeal Rogers:** It would be really messed up if you were using AOL pages when Google existed... \[laughs\] |
**Alex Sexton:** It is a really interesting problem, that once you know terms for things, it's impossible for you to solve the problem. You almost have to just like talk to someone who still doesn't know... But how do you search for what a database is before you know what a database is? If you know the term database, y... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** On that note, I think we're about time for the picks today. |
**Rachel White:** I wanna go first! |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Alright, Rachel's gonna go first... \[laughs\] |
**Rachel White:** I just don't want anybody else to pick my pick. My pick of the week is a really interesting repository that someone emailed me about and I ignored at first, but then other people did not ignore it and now it's got a bunch of stars on GitHub. It's called [Chaosbot](https://github.com/Chaosthebot/Chaos)... |
I guess IIT reminds me of TwitchPlaysPokemon or like TwitchBuildsAComputer or TwitchInstallsLinux, because the fate of the project is at the whim of the people controlling it. I think it will be really interesting to see what they end up making with it. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** This is a very interesting experiment. I'm reading this now and I'm actually like fascinated by it. \[laughs\] |
**Jessica Lord:** I think when I looked at it, it did not even have a ton of this stuff, and now there's like containerization, it's got Vagrant up, and... If you can look at all the open issues and pull requests... It's interesting how -- I feel like it was originally JavaScript maybe... Maybe not. Like I said, I igno... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** I think my favorite thing here is that they have a death counter... People hack it to merge things that actually break it with the voting mechanism, and they're really upfront about how many times the trunk has died because of this... |
\[unintelligible 00:50:27.28\]**Rachel White:** Yeah... My favorite change that got made was this guy got a PR in so that there was no voting weight on the voting, and he was the sole person that could make decisions, which was pretty cool. \[laughter\] |
Yeah, I don't know... If you look at the issues, or -- I think it's in the main part... If you scroll down and... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** The Rulers section, yeah... |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, the Rulers section says "It has been ruled democratically. It has been ruled by plasma power..." |
**Mikeal Rogers:** ...and anarchy, a couple times. \[laughs\] It's really good. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, it's neat. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** That's awesome. Alex, do you wanna go next? |
**Alex Sexton:** Wait, I just wanted to mention that I searched for Chaosbot and the first result is on the Sonic News Network - as in Sonic the Hedgehog - Wikipedia... They have their own wiki on sonic.wikia.com, and apparently there's a Chaosbot in Sonic X \#28, which is a comic... So that's the true Chaosbot. |
\[48:16\] My pick for this week is [Babili](https://www.npmjs.com/package/babili). I believe that's that how it's pronounced... If you type its name into the say command, it will pronounce it correctly, apparently. It is Babel-Minify. Stripe, for instance, likes on its website only to ship ES6 code that works in all th... |
So I think Babili is the first attempt at an ES6 minifier. It will minify down to the same syntax, just smaller, and whatever. It's still in beta 0.0.1, which is pretty beta... But for small things, I think it's probably pretty safe. They have some tests against some common open source things that appear to work still ... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, I'm using it in I think like five projects, and only one of them, some module somewhere is doing something that it actually breaks on. It ends up outputting something that is not valid. But that was like six months ago; that may be a bug that was fixed. I tried to track it down, but tracking do... |
If you're doing WebRTC experiments, it's easy to just ship ES6 to the browser, because the Venn diagram of browsers that support WebRTC and don't support ES6 features is not a thing. They're basically the same. |
**Alex Sexton:** That's decently true of the animations in CSS that's written for a lot of the Stripe sites, so it's mostly the thinking is you already have a broken experience, so... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, it's perfect. Okay, my project of the week is called [pkg](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg). It's from Zeit; they're the creators of [Now](https://zeit.co/now) and [Hyper](https://hyper.is/) and a bunch of other awesome stuff. It's Guillermo Rauch's new company, who started Socket.io. Pkg is ... |
This is something that Go has had since day one, they designed it for this, but this has always been kind of a challenge with Node. They have got it working apparently, so I'm really, really excited about this. |
Jessica, do you have a pick for us? |
**Jessica Lord:** I do... \[laughs\] You'll have to just google this, so I don't have to read out the URL... It's a [Medieval Fantasy City Generator](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator). \[laughter\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** That's awesome. |
**Jessica Lord:** I saw it come through my Twitter feed this week. It's just a site someone built... I guess it came out of some procedural generation subreddit. You can choose if you want a small town, large town, small city, large city, and it will just keep generating you medieval cities... Like, in plan. They're re... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[52:16\] That's really cool... |
**Rachel White:** Oh, I saw that! It's like top-down view of the architectural diagram. |
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah. |
**Rachel White:** I actually have the URL for this; if you give me one second, I'll post it. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Is it watabou.itch.io? Is that it? |
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah, yeah. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, okay. We'll have the link in the show notes for sure. Adam Stacoviak just found the link to it and put it in the live chat. |
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah. Well, never mind... \[laughter\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** If you look at the live chat, you can pull it up; it's really cool. Yeah, this is really, really cool. And it even has labels over stuff. That's awesome. |
Alright, that's our show for today. Thanks everybody for tuning in. Sorry that we were a little bit late on the live broadcast, but that's cool... For the majority of people listening to this at home, you probably don't care. |
Thanks for tuning in, that's all for today. We're out. Thanks, Jessica, for coming on. We really appreciated it. |
**Jessica Lord:** Thanks for having me! |
**Alex Sexton:** And thanks to npm. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Bye, everybody. |
**Jessica Lord:** Bye! |
**Break:** \[53:22\] |
• Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) explained by Alex Sexton |
• AMP is a Google initiative to provide fast mobile browsing experiences for news articles and other content |
• AMP works by caching content on Google's servers, serving it edge-cached, and pre-loading articles based on agreed-upon rules |
• Rules include limiting external CSS, inlining 50 kilobytes of CSS, and using custom elements for images |
• Benefits include faster loading times, but also concerns about centralization of control and data by Google |
• Negative aspects include non-intuitive URLs and limitations on user interaction with AMP content |
• The speaker discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) technology |
• Rachel White questions whether AMP prioritizes certain websites over others, potentially affecting search results |
• Alex Sexton explains that AMP's primary goal is to make the web better, but the incentives for adoption are indirect, such as improved SEO and ranking |
• Mikeal Rogers criticizes AMP, saying it creates a proprietary format that requires websites to conform to Google's rules in order to get into the top search results |
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