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Wow, async Javascript can be maddening.

I scored 6/28 onand all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
new Date("wtf")
https://jsdate.wtf
> How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) #JavaScript

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Me: I’ll just add seamless Markdown support into HTML using JavaScript template strings, how hard could it be?
Markdown: Let me just change the order of the source and link text in links. And footnotes? You hadn’t thought about how footnotes alter source order had you, chum?

1935: birth
1955: fresh out of college, first job writing IBM 701 assembler
1965: independent COBOL contractor
1975: buys an Altair after attending a Homebrew meeting, gets into BASIC
1985: unboxes IBM PC, inserts Turbo Pascal diskette
1995: learns HTML and JavaScript, publishes first home page
2005: retired, first steps in Python and Ruby, starts blog
2015: publishes mobile apps written in Objective-C and Java, starts podcast
2025: at age 90, vibe cod…

Promises are a JavaScript programmer's way of saying "I promise you this code is complicated." 🤓
#technology #JavaScript #programming #nerd #joke #nerdJoke

truly wtf: https://jsdate.wtf/
i managed 10/28 - but some points by accident.
how can anyone take js seriously with things like this?

new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

📮 I wrote a new blog post:
How to import() a JavaScript String
https://www.zachleat.com/web/dynamic-import/