Happy Superb Owl Day! As my team didn't even get close to the playoffs, I'll be rooting for the Seahawks, but even more so, hoping for a fun game. Tomorrow I head out to Vegas for my first offsite with Webflow, and the first in-person company event I've been too since Auth0 nearly a decade ago. I'm looking forward to meeting my teammates in person and meeting new people. Now - to the links!

Adding Touch to PowerShell

A few months back, I traded in my Windows laptop (it was having horrible hardware issues) and moved back to Mac. I've gone back and forth over the years, and even when I was on Windows for my personal machine, my work laptop was usually a Mac, but I've decided to go back to Mac for my personal machine ... at least for a while. That being said, one of the aspects of Windows I wanted to get into more, but never got around to it, was scripting in PowerShell. I knew it had a lot of power and flexibility, but I spent most my time in WSL so I didn't really dig into it.

This post by Cassidy Williams demonstrates a simple example of this, rebuilding the touch command for PowerShell. On the offhand chance you don't know what touch does, it simply creates a new blank file with the name you specify, so touch cats.txt will create the file cats.txt in your current directory. Apparently, Windows has a command like this already, ni, but Cassidy wanted to use the same function in multiple OSes.

Invokers on the Web

Next up is a look at invoker commands by Pawel Grzybak. Invoker commands let you bind HTML elements to actions without needing JavaScript, and are available across all modern browsers (even IESafari). You can extend the built-in invoker support with JavaScript as well.

State of JavaScript Results

Last up are the results from the annual State of JavaScript survey. This is a wide ranging survey of the JavaScript, and greater web, ecosystem. It's quite a bit of data and worth your time checking out.

Just For Fun

Usually I reserve the "fun" link for music videos, but this was just too good to pass up. My buddy Todd Sharp discovered this a few days ago and it's a fascinating look at the history of the Japanese mail system. Trust me, it is absolutely cooler than it sounds, and a quick read at that. Enjoy!

More than Mail | The Culture and History of the Japanese Postal System