I have a thing for virtual machines that are implemented in the language (or a subset of the language) they are built to execute. If I were in the academia or just had a little bit more free time I would definitely start working on a JavaScript VM writt...

In my article on Understanding the Critical Rendering Path, I wrote about the effect JavaScript files have on the Critical Rendering Path. JavaScript is considered a "parser blocking resource". This means that the parsing of the HTML document itself i... (more…)

Learn about recursion in Javascript, tail calls, trampolines and when to use them. (more…)

ellipsed - A JavaScript library for multilined ellipsis... (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…)