The Macintosh turned 30 this week. Apple did a big retrospective and I fell down a rabbit hole of 1984 footage: the Ridley Scott ad, young Steve Jobs pulling it out of a bag. My daily driver at work is a MacBook and I’ve never once thought about the lineage. Thirty years from “insanely great” to me running bundle install on it while eating a shawarma or a dilkhush. Progress?
Microsoft’s CEO search is reportedly down to the wire, and the name floating around is Satya Nadella, their cloud guy. HN consensus: picking the cloud guy over a Windows guy would say everything about where computing is going. The client platform I work on just started moving to AWS, so, checks out.
F1 pre-season testing starts next week, and the new turbo-hybrid engines are about to hit the track. Office pool is ₹700 on whether Mercedes or Red Bull nails the new regulations. Inflation.
TIL: event delegation. Instead of attaching 500 click handlers to 500 rows, attach one to the parent and let events bubble up. My table renders instantly now. JavaScript is 10% weird parts and 90% people warning you about the weird parts.