Posts from 6 April 2023

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]

This week I spiraled out with standup comedian & writer Clara Olshansky! (Flamethrowers, My First Joke.)  We talked career shame, dating shame, shame embodied as the snake from the Garden of Eden, the horrible things you tell yourself when you...