JavaScript

Date handling in JavaScript is ugly. The Date() object has not changed since the first Java-inspired implementation in 1995. Java scrapped it but Date() remained in JavaScript for backward browser compatibility. Issues with the Date() API include: it’s inelegant it … Read more

We’ve already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven’t gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the introductory post at the very least. Trie is a variation of tree data structure. It’s … Read more

Code readability is a big thing. Developers spend a lot of our time reading code: other peoples code, our own code, code we have never seen before, etc. Writing code in a way that is as readable as possible can … Read more

I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade. Of course, … Read more

tl;dr — Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane can allow execution of Javascript by the devtools while the main thread is paused by the debugger! I used this trick to create a very powerful anti debugging technique library that tracks … Read more

This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and describing the core elements, we also share some rules of thumb we use when building SessionStack, a JavaScript … Read more

#!/usr/bin/env zx await $`cat package.json | grep name` let branch = await $`git branch –show-current` await $`dep deploy –branch=${branch}` await Promise.all([ $`sleep 1; echo 1`, $`sleep 2; echo 2`, $`sleep 3; echo 3`, ]) await $`ssh medv.io uptime` Bash is … Read more

This is post # 24 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and describing the core elements, we also share some rules of thumb we use when building SessionStack, a JavaScript … Read more