In this episode, we create an implementation for the stack mechanisms that were described in the last episode. If you have seen that, you can find it at http... (more…)

There are projects, where you want to create an application,... (more…)

Recently, while browsing a popular tech news site's comments, I stumbled upon a modern staple in the online tech discussion world: the javascript hate thread. I've blogged about this theme before but it's almost a trope at this point. User posts article, ... (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…)

The globalThis proposal introduces a unified mechanism to access the global this in any JavaScript environment. It sounds like a simple thing to polyfill, but it turns out it’s pretty hard to get right. I didn’t even think it was possible until Toon blew ... (more…)