As a long-time Espruino user I was immediately interested.

At first glance Espruino has broader coverage including quite a bit of ES6 and even up to parts of ES2020. (https://www.espruino.com/Features). And obviously has a ton of libraries and support for a wide range of hardware.

For a laugh, and to further annoy the people annoyed by @simonw's experiments, I got Cursor to butcher it and run as a REPL on an ESP32-S3 over USB-Serial using ESP-IDF.

Blink is now running so my work here is done :-)

  led.init(48)
  
  function blink() {
    led.rgb(0, 0, 255)
    setTimeout(function() {
      led.off();
      setTimeout(blink, 500)
    }, 500)
  }
  blink()

I had this exact problem with multiple Node blog engines in the past. Constant version breakage was incredibly frustrating. I eventually moved to Hugo. A single binary which I committed with the blog files. Zero issues even years later. I can build the blog on any new machine within seconds. Which was the other revelation of Hugo. 10 seconds to build an 800+ post blog vs minutes using Hexo or similar.

Love reading this. I spent a few years in the late 90s using Tcl/Tk to build cross-platform installers for Embedded tools/libraries, along with Expect for a bunch of our testing. One of those pragmatic toolsets for getting sh*t done.

I adored Pegasus for a very long time in the 90s with a POP3 backend and then UW-IMAP running on various SUN boxes. It eventually got overtaken by Thunderbird but I'll always remember its speed and power compared to the horror of console email at one extreme and Outlook at the other extreme.

There have been many many attempts at micropayments. But it probably needs one of the big guys to get it to the right level of scale. And is it in their interest? Or if they take a micro % of a micropayment, is that enough for them?

Countdown to the first comment that starts with "all you need is a blockchain". 3-2-1.......

Well given that one of the hood.ie developers is called Caolan McMahon, I'm guessing there's an Irish granny involved somewhere ;-)

I was thinking that initially, but it looks to be a proxy registration with somebody else acting as the domain holder. The domain holder is 'Paul Campbell', who registered under the category "Discretionary Name" as a Sole Trader. I'm guessing there were some little fibs used to get the registration past the hostmasters... :-)

Finally a summary I can use.

They basically do all of this stuff without notification. Sign of a very immature customer support organisation.

I hate to bring it up yet again as this is being said quite often in context of google/facebook/twitter shenanigans, but until you pay for it you are not a customer but a product. I am sure that corporate clients such as advertisers enjoy a nice level of support from Twitter.

Twitter for me is a utility I would happily pay for if Twitter let me. For better or worse they don't want my money.

Very strange Walter, you should contact them immediately. This happened on one of my accounts a few years back and once I explained that I wasn't up to badness, they re-instated it.

They recently suspended the Proxlet App for breaking Ts&Cs but I think that was just the App not the account.