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#​560 — December 17, 2024 Read on the Web 🎄 This week we cover a few news items but quickly get into a 2024 roundup of Node news and the most clicked items of the year. Then we’re taking a Christmas break for two weeks and will be back on Read more…

#​559 — December 10, 2024 Read on the Web 🎄 The Node world is experiencing a post-Thanksgiving interfestal lull, so this issue includes a few items we overlooked earlier this year. Next week brings our usual annual roundup, though, so keep your eyes peeled for that before the festive break 🙂__Peter Read more…

#​558 — December 3, 2024 Read on the Web Skia Canvas 2.0: A Browserless Canvas Environment for Node — Based on Google’s Skia graphics engine and offers end results similar to Chrome’s own canvas system. It’s GPU accelerated and can render images, paths, fonts, shapes, and (almost) everything you’d expect. Read more…

#​557 — November 26, 2024 Read on the Web Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you know Oracle formally owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? There have been a few efforts to change this over the years (most recently via this open letter) but Oracle isn’t listening. The Deno Read more…

#​556 — November 19, 2024 Read on the Web AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and Read more…