Tom Dale

My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript and accompanying runtime libraries, we've reached the point of diminishing returns.

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I’m Joining LinkedIn

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I'm very excited to share that I've joined LinkedIn as a full-time employee.

Best Practices Exist For A Reason

2012248 points97 comments Software Engineering details

If you've ever used node.js, you've probably also used Isaac Schlueter's npm, the node package manager. By maintaining a central repository to which authors can quickly publish their JavaScript modules, npm has made it easy to get started building node apps and its popularity has exploded over the past year…