It’s been a while since I wrote anything on my blog about technology or the Web (indeed, the last several posts I’ve written have been my 5-word movie reviews. While fun, these aren’t very informative to the primary audience of my blog: you, the (probably) Web developer, genius type.

A lot has changed in the last few months. We’ve got so many exciting new technologies and APIs to play with. Not to mention ECMAScript 6 (a.k.a. ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. the latest version of JavaScript). In ES6, the big new toys, for me, are Promises and arrow functions. Both take some getting used to, but once you do, they make a huge difference in code readability and despite feeling alien and weird to my old procedural programming brain, they still make code just plain better.

Add to that all the amazing new APIs, including WebRTC, Web Notifications, Service Workers, the Push API, and so much more, and my mind boggles at the immense power of the Web in this day and age.

I was in college when the Web first exploded into existence. Back then, it was mostly a thing students and researchers played with, but I already knew it was going to change the world. And it has.

I’ll try to get back into the habit of blogging more regularly; there’s far too much exciting stuff to talk about to let my blog stay idle any longer.

http://www.bitstampede.com/2015/11/03/the-web-now-with-500-more-amazing-goodness/