Thomas has 35 years of programming experience, from assembly language to classical AI. He has designed and implemented a small web framework prototype that could disrupt the web by simplifying the creation of web apps, maybe even making end user development of web apps possible. The framework is based upon sequential programming and web continuations (call-with-current-continuation aka call/cc) in the web browser using a Scheme-language interpreter in the browser. He would love to meet highly innovative and creative people who can understand his ideas. He is swimming against the mighty tide of current web development trends. Many web developers are so invested in their development technologies that they cannot understand that sequential programming, if implemented well, would be a more natural and easier way to programme user interactions (and other asynchronous events like timers and the transfer of data from a server) than asynchronous programming using callbacks and promises. This lack of understanding is astonishing, because sequential programming is the way the mind works. Asynchronous activity is subservient to the general flow of any programme. His vision and demos can be followed at https://mashweb.club and http://web-call.cc. Currently he is working on pivotal use cases for end-user-developed web apps, the 'low-hanging fruit', or the 'killer [user-programmed] apps'. Understanding these use cases is essential to build interest in the technology.

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