This seems to be highly focused on global financial news, which are unsignificant to most people on this planet.
It would be nice to be able to include or exclude certain news-categories to actually produce a list that has some significance to the reader.
I'm guessing the Arithmetic to maximising significance to population favours economics because 10 cents for every Indian outweighs 300 dead in a train crash several times over.
Indeed. The perfect news feed has to be tailored to the reader. For instance, events in my city have rather large impact on me but are not interesting for most of the planet.
Therefore the method called "progressive enhancement" might be an option to start with an HTML-only variant and load JS only if available and required for the current page.
Because the European Commission is not a democratic institutionen! Those bureaucrats are mostly announced, not elected. And each European nation is only sending those politicians into the Commission, that are unwanted in national politics.
In other words: The European Commission is the autocratic reservoir for conservative politicians that were to extremistic for national audiences.
Politicians are sent to Brussels as a reward, not as a form of exile. Those who are most compliant, lacking in initiative, devoid of original ideas, are sent there, after a career in national politics. They're not unwanted, and they're not conservative. They are just obedient non-entities.
What sounds like a trip into medieval times? Government control over corporations? Corporation oversight over private lives? Isn’t that what the new generation of enlightened and progressive people wanted?
But wait, isn't that what was happening in medieval times: the church ruled over the peasants, the kings ruled over the states and everyone was happy living in a liberal and free world - well at least they believed that.
That was the theory; in practice, the very limited communication (hard to handle fast-evolving situations when couriers from Rome to Amiens take a few weeks at best) & enforcement means (you have 100 guys with spears? We are 200 with pitchforks, come get us) led to a much more decentralized power structure than what is stereotypically understood.
I used to use CoffeeScript because the syntax was more convenient. I could do the same thing with less code. Less code can mean less maintenance (although some people have said CoffeeScript can overdo this...)
Now I use TypeScript to get the benefit of type-checking. It really helps catch silly little mistakes.
I would use Civet just to be able to use the new pipe operator syntax.
There are even compilers that compile future versions of JS into the current version of JS so future language features can be used in current browsers.
Rent an office or go to one of those shared office spaces, they do offer coffee too.