Fake legs till you make legs (JS Party #248)

What do Story of the Week, HeadLIES & Pro Tip Time have in common? They’re all games we play on this seriously ridiculous episode of JS Party!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Story of the Week

• The Future of the Web is on the Edge


• Brave blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners


• Linear’s website temporarily replaced with a Figma file

HeadLIES

• Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In


• The US department of Veteran Affairs postpones rollout of electronic health record systems, developed by Oracle under a $50B contact, until 2030


• Heroku reverses course, plans to reintroduce free plans after facing community backlash


• Decentraland’s reported to have only has 38 Daily Active Users in their $1.3B Ecosystem


• Meta Avatar Legs Demo ‘Created By Motion Capture’, Not Live VR

Pro Tip Time

• Nick: How I use git worktrees


• Jerod: Get a Pi-hole!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!