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Allen Wirfs-Brock

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Posts
42 from 27 Nov 2010 to 30 Nov 2022
Posting
quiet since 2022
Kind
personal blog
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2022 1

  1. How Smalltalk Became a AI Language

2021 2

  1. Personal Digital Habitats: Get Started!
  2. Personal Digital Habitats

2020 4

  1. Software Diagrams Aren’t Always Correct and That’s OK
  2. The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
  3. JavaScript: The First 20 Years
  4. Teaser—JavaScript: The First 20 Years

2017 1

  1. Some ECMAScript Explanations and Stories for Dave

2016 10

  1. How to Invent the Future
  2. Slide Bite: Survival of the Fittest
  3. Slide Bite: Early Era Products
  4. Slide Bite: Grassroots Innovation
  5. Slide Bit: From Chaos
  6. Slide Bite: The Ambient Computing Era
  7. Slide Bite: Transitional Technologies
  8. Slide Bite: Computing Eras Aren’t About Hardware
  9. An Experiment: Slide Bites
  10. Redux | The Third Era of Computing

2013 4

  1. Working Outside the Blue Bubble
  2. Ambient Computing Challenge: Please Abstract My Digital Life
  3. Does the Web Matter Anymore?
  4. A Cloud on Your Ceiling?

2011 14

  1. B2G: From Browser to Platform
  2. Web App Platform: Is it a Framework or is it an OS?
  3. Combining Mirror Facets
  4. Looking into Mirrors
  5. Experimenting with Mirrors for JavaScript
  6. Why Mozilla?
  7. The SPLASH Submission Clock is Ticking
  8. A JavaScript Optional Argument Hazard
  9. Testing for -0 in JavaScript
  10. The Browser is a Transitional Technology
  11. Some ECMAScript Technical Resources
  12. The Third Era of Computing
  13. SPLASH – Write to Share
  14. Make a SPLASH – Write a Paper

2010 6

  1. Extending the JavaScript Object Model
  2. Announcing ECMAScript 5.1
  3. An Information Hiding Proposal for ECMAScript
  4. Please, No Browser Monoculture
  5. Let’s Party Like It’s 1984 (for computing)
  6. Welcome!