This for me often takes the longest. It is absolutely critical to understand what you are trying to solve, who stakeholders are, and what's actually important. I find this absolutely necessary to… (more…)

VisibleV8 (VV8) is a custom variant of the V8 JavaScript engine at the heart of the Chromium browser, the Node.js application runtime, and probably other titans of the modern software world. Maintained and distributed as a minimally-invasive and maintaina... (more…)

The comma operator fits in with a set of expression operators and it can be useful, but it has a tendency to be used in ways that confuse rather than clarify. Part of the reason for this is that it… (more…)

Have you ever heard about theremin? If you’re into spy stories, you’ve probably heard of The Thing, a listening device developed by Leon… (more…)

Functional programming is all about transformations. For the actual transformations we use things called transformers. Transformers are typically implemented as pure functions that takes an input... (more…)