artemiszx

The WWW was built to transport hypertext documents, which became interactive thanks to JavaScript. Since HTML5, increasingly complex webapps are being built, and daily on HN people complain about Electron & bloated frontend tech.

I think the web grew naturally to dominance, and in the process lots of work went into optimizing JS performance and building browsers into the huge runtime environments they are today.

My question is, what would it take to build a new web that aims to support highly interactive applications from the start? Something that provides a unified runtime across different platforms, loads lazily / needs no installs, and uses a more performant language with fewer pitfalls than JS. Bonus points if it is as open to user-side modifications as the current web.

I have a feeling that I just described Flutter; please share if something like this is being worked on.

The 2nd & 3rd generation Apple butterfly keyboards have a lot of problems [1], and I am one of the users that has to live with a broken keyboard.

Can anyone recommend a Bluetooth keyboard that can be put over the butterfly keyboard (13" MBP in my case)? Preferably mechanical, and access to the trackpad should not be blocked.

I use my own Ergodox for my desktop, but they are not portable enough. Something that can fit above the original keyboard will minimize the footprint.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-macbook-keyboard-fiasco-is-surely-worse-than-apple-thinks/