Earlier today on Hacker News Scrappy made the rounds, with the explicit tagline “make little apps for you and your friends”. I always like to see new projects in this vein. That’s why I’d like to outline my alternative approach, which Works cross-platform... (more…)

A look back on when and how JavaScript was created and came to a point where it is now. (more…)

What it can't do? Well, I was talking about jQuery. It is a tremendous library. CSS wasn't able to create complex animations at some point, and then jQuery appeared to help it out. jQuery created a wrapper method, called animate(). It can apply custom ani... (more…)

We present and compare all possible alternatives you can use to parse languages in JavaScript. From libraries to parser generators, we present all options... (more…)

Prime numbers (those that are divisible by only themselves and one) are mathematically wild. Unlike, say, the even numbers, the primes famously elude the capture and discipline of a neat mathematical formula. Compare: For any given even number, we have a ... (more…)