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On November 15 at the Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup (STLJS), Perrin Westrich (a.k.a @CrytpicSwarm) presented an impressive demo of a “code walking” tool, which leverages some source transformation wizardry of his own devising.
This starts silly, but about halfway in start talking about low-level concerns and connecting them in insightful ways to the previous setup.
Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/RedHatDevelopers/shenandoah-gc-java-without-the-garbage-collection-hiccups-christine-flood
A story about my journey into JavaScript and out the other side, filled with genetic algorithms gone wrong, ascii art misadventures, and the series of unfortunate events that made me desperate enough to create a new programming language.
big up TorontoJS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1samyyfqiKmOT6fq3uVO1A
Here's the poem, for the reading type.
Fishy Sneaky Sticky Cookies
can make even the greatest devs feel like rookies
disguised as something so delicious
hiding something oh so malicious
do you ever wonder how
that...
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/19yaYn4rMyD5E39ZDEchvTgQ_bDOTVZ5P/view?usp=sharing)