Jason Williams (Bloomberg) recounts the nine-year effort to design and standardize Temporal — a new, immutable, timezone- and calendar-aware date/time library for JavaScript — explaining why the legacy Date API failed (mutability, parsing, month arithmetic, lack of time zone/precision support), how libraries like Moment emerged, and how Temporal progressed through TC39 with Bloomberg and other stakeholders contributing.

The author rebuilt a side-project (setlist.rocks) and re-discovered Rails 8, praising its modernized, “no-build” front-end approach (Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus) and familiar server-rendered workflow that made development fun again. Despite Rails and Ruby's declining popularity, the post argues Rails remains productive and enjoyable for small, back-end-focused web apps and rapid prototyping.

s@ (sAT Protocol) is a decentralized social networking protocol that stores each user’s encrypted posts on their static website and performs client-side feed aggregation; identity is domain-based and cryptography (X25519 + XChaCha20-Poly1305) is used to encrypt content per-follower so only mutual followers can read posts. The system is serverless and intended for small, friend-only networks and is deployable on static hosts like GitHub Pages, trading scalability for simplicity and privacy.