After many years of development, a completely overhauled version 2 of Sigma.js is finally released, pushing forward the performance of interactive rendering of large graphs directly in the browser. (more…)

If you didn't grab a few cups of coffee for my last post, you're going to want to for this one. While writing my last post about js-csp, a port of Clojure's core.async, they announced transducers which solves a key problem when working with transformation... (more…)

A site for cataloging the many technical musing of Andy Desmarais... (more…)

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned... (more…)

Logical operators are important in JavaScript applications. We constantly need to compare variables and do something based on that comparison. If some comparison is true, take path A; if it’s false, take path B. If we don’t understand the order of precede... (more…)