When working on a larger project, you may struggle with the problem of an increasingly growing set of tests, which over time begins to perform slower on your... (more…)

JavaScript is notorious for being “loose”, something that some developers love but other developers loathe.  I hear most of those complaints from server side developers, who want string typing and syntax.  While I like strict coding standards, I also like... (more…)

image credit: Work Hard by Uran No lingo. Written for humans. With code snippets. In 5 minutes. The purpose of lingo is to encapsulate a particular idea into a nice and compact word. However, meaning is lost if you don’t understand what the word means. In... (more…)

JavaScript: The First 20 Years  by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich Our HOPL paper is done and submitted to the ACM for June 2020 publication in the PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages)  and presentation at the HOPL 4 conference when... (more…)

Most of your time as a developer is spent reading code followed by debugging that same code, most likely to be able to read it or solve an… (more…)