New Year's Party 🎊

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

It’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Last year’s New Year’s party
• Twitter thread highlighting collaboration between NodeJS and Bun maintainers on finding and improving a node performance bottleneck
• Joyee Cheung (Node contributor and TSC member) sharing her updates on the node performance issue highlighted above
• Direct link to GH issue thread on the suggested node perf improvement
• Smoot - Wikipedia
• JS Party Survey Github Collaboration Repo (content coming soon)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's new year's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to 2024 (00:01:04)

3. KBall's bad prediction (00:03:07)

4. Nick's good prediction (00:09:04)

5. Jerod's good (?) prediction (00:16:05)

6. Junior engineer concerns (00:23:07)

7. KBall makes a prediction (00:36:47)

8. Chris makes a morbid prediction (00:39:01)

9. Nick makes a prediction (00:40:13)

10. Amal makes a prediction (00:43:51)

11. How many smoots? (00:48:04)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

12. Jerod rains on Amal's prediction (00:48:57)

13. KBall defends Amal's prediction (00:50:42)

14. Sponsor: Socket (00:53:39)

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15. Resolutions time (00:57:03)

16. Chris' resolution (00:57:35)

17. Amal's resolution (01:01:01)

18. Nick's resolution (01:02:38)

19. KBall's resolution (01:04:24)

20. Jerod's resolution (01:05:43)

21. A big announcement (01:06:41)

https://github.com/thechangelog/jsparty-survey

22. Wrapping up (01:09:28)

23. Next up on the pod (01:10:10)