HTML UI has been slowly but steadily gaining in popularity as the choice for UI technology in games. However, due to performance and tooling issues, it has mostly been used only for menus and social features. This talk aims to show that it's... (more…)

After a few months writing Clojure I began writing Javascript again. As I was trying to write something ordinary, I had the following thoughts: They seemed unnecessary. But I imagine I’ve thought… (more…)

I was hired in December 2014 as the sixth engineer at Shyp. Shyp runs Node.js on the server. It's been a pretty frustrating journey, and I wanted to share some of the experiences we've had. There are no hot takes about the learning curve, or "why are t... (more…)

FatFinger is a JavaScript library expanding JS to allow typos and misspellings. Why bother with clean, well-formatted code when you can write this and FatFinger will guess at your intentions? (more…)

Thou shalt not depend on me: analysing the use of outdated JavaScript libraries on the web Lauinger et al., NDSS 2017 Just based on the paper title alone, if you had to guess what the situation is … (more…)