As much as I cheer on the death of Flash, it did play a part in my "coming up" as a programmer. Reading the book, "The New Masters of Flash"[1], published in 20

As much as I cheer on the death of Flash, it did play a part in my "coming up" as a programmer. Reading the book, "The New Masters of Flash"[1], published in 2000, was the first time I got truly inspired by the intersection of design and programming that was then becoming popular on the early web. Flash is now a footnote in history, but, as I shared on Twitter[2], for me, Flash was almost like an early glimpse into what the future of web technologies would eventually become. If Adobe had released Flash as open source after acquiring Macromedia, we'd likely all be using a very different web, which is quite the mindbender to reflect on. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1125594.New_Masters_of_Flash https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1125594.New_Masters_of_F... [2]: original tweet -- https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1272699635375759362 https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1272699635375759362 -- and unrolled into thread form here: https://threader.app/thread/1272699635375759362 https://threader.app/thread/1272699635375759362