miniblog.

One of the challenges with PLs that build on top of others (Typescript to JS, Scala/Clojure to Java, C++ to C) is documentation. You often have to read two sets of docs with two distinct syntaxes. Which languages do this best? Sometimes I wish there was a TS version of MDN.

Building VaccinateCA, a website developed by volunteers to make vaccination information widely available. It's a long read, but it explores a bunch of larger policy / organisational challenges they encountered in the public sector. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/

Reflections on the challenges and relevance of Gnu Autotools after the first release in eight years: