I'm having a gaming phase. Seem to buy any (indie) game bundle that I can find. Getting a bit of an addiction :p But I'm mainly looking for original indie games these days but that's very difficult. This is why I like the indie games; they dare to ex...
ECMA is the organization that's, amongst others, responsible for the ECMAScript specification, which in turn is the foundation for JavaScript. We short that to JS to get rid of the bullshit capitalization arguments (because the official trademark is ...
I've spent a couple of days trying to implement source maps for Hutimility and learned a great deal in the process. It actually took me a few attempts to get certain things right and feel the current spec (v3) could use some clarification, as well as...
I'm in the middle of the 6th hell called source maps. While still a bit of a black box, I think I figured it out by now. I'll do a writeup soon about my findings which will explain step-by-step how to generate a source map. This is not that writeup, ...
There was some recent news about a new all:default; css property being introduced, which you could use as a css reset. One of it's usages is to prevent inherited styles for a widget. I actually like this property. I also hope they int...
Textareas certainly are a strange beast with many applications. One application I find myself using them often for is code, in one way or another. And every time I find myself searching for attributes to disable in such occassions. Stuff like spell c...
This is a call for sponsors for js1k 2013; Spring. As before, your sponsorship means supporting a simple though widely loved competition of contriving a JavaScript application composed of no more than 1024 bytes. If you're not yet familiar with th...
Just wanted to give a quick example on why I would love for some kind of tag literal syntax to be added to JS. I'm creating a simple table. The why, why I'm doing it in JS, and the fact that you'd consider it bad are all completely irrelevant. Thi...
Sooo... another year, another js1k. Of course. I'd like to announce, well ahead of any kind of schedule, the theme suggestion for the next js1k! The theme will be "Spring"! Feel free to interpret that any way you'd like (hint: season, pressure/...
Even though we do a fair bit of testing I notice I'm still struggling with parts of writing tests. I'm convinced that integration tests are vital for a product. I feel they are more important than any other test. Yet I can't deny that unit tests have...