Mat “Wilto” Marquis
@wil.to
Melee DPS. I’m https://wil.to I wrote https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone I wrote https://web.dev/learn/javascript and https://web.dev/learn/images too, way back when. I make https://multipa.ge, y'know, when I get a chance.
Going live at twitch.tv/wiltostreams / youtube.com/live/h86h-Ck... in fifteen to bash out tomorrow’s JavaScript for Everyone newsletter. I’m burnt out on writing about The Writing, so let’s make this one a mini-lesson, on the house — come join, and bring your JavaScript questions and topic requests.
WiltoStreams - Twitch
I’m Wilto, from websites.
twitch.tv
In this free lesson from JavaScript for Everyone, @wil.to teaches us how to use promises: objects that represent the result of asynchronous operations. piccalilli.link/js4e-free-le...
One of many blunt posts from an uncompromising thread on AI mania with citations, and link to an essay version at /2 for those who prefer.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoSuresh says he's *never* seen a successful enterprise AI project: "Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half." Not one of their clients would face a business challenge if OpenAI went out of business tomorrow. 27/
Alright dorks: what do we think of this, like, as a format (give or take a couple layout tweaks)? Should my omni-busted nose and I plan to do a couple more? Hard to get a read where I’m not super video-inclined myself, but I know some folks are. bsky.app/profile/picc...
Piccalilli@piccalil.li · 6d ago@wil.to of JavaScript for Everyone fame here breaking down the secret third option for JavaScript comments.
LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
I mean, we all joked about comic sans and everything, but what I wouldn't give to see it on a poster these days instead of that fucking dreadful slop font. Would go to war for comic sans, I would run through a wall for times new roman. Impact, I take back everything I said about you.
It's up! Capo extension for Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... Let me know if you run into any issues
Capo: get your ﹤𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍﹥ in order – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Capo: get your ﹤𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍﹥ in order for Firefox. Visualize the optimal ordering of ﹤𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍﹥ elements on any web page
addons.mozilla.org
Rick Viscomi@rviscomi.dev · last wk.Capo extension support finally coming to Firefox
@wil.to of JavaScript for Everyone fame here breaking down the secret third option for JavaScript comments.
You must understand that I had no recourse but to do it to ’em.
In which I start shaking off the rust, judge any/all past versions of myself very harshly, and let’s-call-it-“explore” the tension between “technical writing means hewing to formal definitions in the strictest possible terms” and “all words are made up.” wil.to/js4e/newslet...
Metagaming
A behind-the-scenes look at my work on JavaScript for Everyone, from Piccalil.li.
wil.to
The newsletter returns, and so too does the stream where I fail to write it! Tune into www.twitch.tv/wiltostreams or www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q2q... in twenty to talk JS, webdev, and retro-future aesthetics — or just to watch me grow increasingly frantic while staring at an empty Markdown file.
WiltoStreams - Twitch
I’m Wilto, from websites.
twitch.tv
I still can’t believe some of the writing I got away with in this thing.
> **hashbang** comments [...] might ring familiar to the CLI-curious. @bell.bz is on vacation; i can put whatever i want in my drafts
Do call it a comeback; I have, in fact, been gone for years. I’m speaking at @jsnation.gitnation.org in November, and if you register by way of my little badge dealie here, you can watch the stream for free. gitnation.com/badges/jsnat...
Check out my badge & claim your free JSNation US 2026 remote ticket!
Join 5k engineers worldwide at JSNation US 2026 and meet 50+ top speakers at November 16 - 19, 2026
gitnation.com
> There is only three hard problem in computer science: cache invalidation, naming thing, and consistently pluralizing string. language is a playground
Proxy and Reflect, by @wilto@front-end.social (@piccalil.li): https://piccalil.li/blog/proxy-and-reflect/?ref=frontenddogma.com #javascript #objects
Proxy and Reflect
An extremely deep-dive into the often forgotten, but incredibly useful Proxy and Reflect objects by JavaScript for Everyone's Mat Marquis.
piccalil.li
.
There is a fourth comment syntax, so ancient as to predate JavaScript itself. Long, long ago — in the the age before JavaScript, before standards — the concept of "progressive enhancement" was important to many of us, though it had yet to be named. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmtsmr3fcbhffjoydyg3663/bafkreihjndoouccokzpavvep6si7tps2y7dwzhxtkaqtl4dyqs4snoxpn4)
