As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much more than shipping bytes down the… (more…)

If you’re like most programmers working today, you’ve probably written a few regular expressions in your time: short (or possibly long), almost inscrutable mixtures of letters and symbols which let you check if a string looks like you expect it to or not. (more…)

The free browser extension SafeBrowse runs a crypto mining module in the background while it is enabled in the browser and while the browser is open on the system. (more…)

Every time I return from ruby/python to JavaScript I'll fall into the same mistake of writing arr[-1] and not getting the last item. JavaScript has a weird way of stringifying object keys which leads to stringifying array indexes which renders the above n... (more…)

JavaScript has gone from being a marketing ploy to gain a tactical advantage, to becoming the core programming experience in the world’s most widely used application runtime platform. Where to, next?