I started doing JavaScript sometime around 2011. I was server/Python person, and node 0.4 had a lot of cool things: DOM manipulation on the server, HTTP as a first class citizen, and the ability to get a million people to connect to your server at once wi... (more…)

— Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger, Software Tools in Pascal ... (more…)

GraalVM is a new open source project by Oracle which is trying to make Java VM an universal VM to run all the major languages. Before GraalVM, there were already few languages like Scala, Closure which targeted JVM as their runtime. This has been hugely s... (more…)

a Linux VM mounting a JS filesystem with a Service Worker web server. (more…)

Lately I thought it would be good to convert a lot of the GIFs I have to MP4 to save space on some of memory sticks. The problem that I found with that is that Quicklook on Mac doesn’t loop MP4s when you view them, which is annoying. (more…)