CloudFlare protects millions of websites from online threats. One of the oldest and most pervasive attacks launched against websites is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In a typical DDoS attack, an attacker causes a large number of compute... (more…)

My winning JS1K entry---a JavaScript platform game that fits in 1024 bytes. (more…)

There are several problems with the JavaScript name. Is it time to rebrand JavaScript? If so, what should we call it? (more…)

We have learnt scopes and closures in JavaScript with my previous posts. Combining these two core concepts, JavaScript gives us a beautiful syntax called self-invoking anonymous functions. It simply means an unnamed function that executes itself. This spe... (more…)

There is no faster (pun intended) way to slow down a site than to use a bunch of JavaScript. (more…)