tools May 18, 2017

Retrieving my Private Key from ProtonMail

I really wanted to decrypt an email I sent.

#security #privacy

programming JavaScript Feb 11, 2017

V8 puzzle

Moar arguments, moar speed?!

#v8 #javascript

programming JavaScript Dec 22, 2016

JavaScript Engines Hidden Classes (and Why You Should Keep Them in Mind)

Augmented edition!

#v8 #crankshaft #javascript

programming JavaScript Nov 28, 2016

JavaScript Engines Hidden Classes (and Why You Should Keep Them in Mind)

An introduction.

#v8 #crankshaft #javascript

programming May 16, 2016

!!Con and a week back at the Recurse Center

People and programming. Mainly people.

project old tech new ideas Mar 21, 2016

How Many Websites Provide RSS / Web Syndication Feeds

How to find out? Let's dig.

#rss #spark #ipython #scala

programming JavaScript Feb 06, 2016

Navigating the ECMAScript® 2015 Language Specification

Finding answers to your JavaScript questions with the help of the official ECMAScript specification. Here's how.

#javascript #es2015

programming Feb 04, 2016

The dangers of HFS+ for git repositories

OSX file system, HFS+, is case insensitive.

#osx #file systems

project old tech new ideas Feb 02, 2016

Fixing Hiring through RSS

What if people had feeds companies could subscribe to, to be notified when start looking for work?

project tools Jan 30, 2016

Enhancing GitHub with Chrome extensions

GitHub lacks a few features which might be useful for popular projects maintainers. Here are some helpful Chrome extensions.

#chrome #github

programming JavaScript Jan 22, 2016

Chromium, Chrome, Node.js, V8, Crankshaft and bailout reasons

A short summary about these terms, an overview of how V8 / Crankshaft works.

#v8 #javascript #es2015 #nodejs #crankshaft

programming JavaScript Jan 21, 2016

Chrome 49 is coming, with 92% ES2015 coverage!

It's coming, it's awesome, but some features might still be worth transpiling.

#v8 #javascript #es2015 #nodejs #crankshaft

Jan 21, 2016

Modifying or Deleting a Line from an Old Commit

Here's how. But seriously, you probably shouldn't do it.

programming JavaScript Jan 15, 2016

One Simple Trick for JavaScript Performance Optimization

My attempt at clickbait. Also, an interesting (who said "useless") JS performance tip.

#javascript #v8 #crankshaft #nodejs

programming Jan 13, 2016

Comment Syntax in Programming Languages (and the Eye of Osiris)

Wadler's law is bikeshedding applied to programming languages design.

#programming language design

programming JavaScript Dec 17, 2015

Making Babel fast with ES2015 rest parameters

What I did to help avoid bailouts on rest parameters transpilation.

#javascript #es2015 #babel #nodejs #crankshaft #v8

programming JavaScript Nov 02, 2015

JavaScript performance with Babel and Node.js: a case against default parameters in tail call optimizations

Babel might prevent some V8 optimizations to happen. Also, have you heard about Unsupported Phi Use of Arguments?

#javascript #es2015 #babel #nodejs #crankshaft #v8

programming JavaScript Oct 28, 2015

ES6 Destructuring

A few things about destructuring and assigning default values.

#javascript #es2015

programming JavaScript Oct 27, 2015

JavaScript Promises

Promises, and what bluebird can do to help.

#javascript #es2015 #promises #nodejs