The JavaScript typeof Operator Problem

TL;DR don't even try to normalize or shim newer typeof via code: you simply can't! Whenever it was a mistake or not to consider ty...

Dealing With Future Pointers

I have talked about this already in both JSConfEU and QCon - London and I have also blogged a couple of times about this problem that many...

Ranting About Racing Engines

Update ... regardless this rant is still valid ... I have updated for both Web and node my es6-collections following stricter currently av...

Asynchronous Storage For All Browsers

I have finally implemented and successfully tested the IndexedDB fallback for Firefox so that now every browser, old or new, should be abl...

Working With Queues

Programming with queues is basically what we do in any case: it does not matter if we write code in that way, we simply think in that way. T...

Graceful Migration From ES3 to ES5

Just slides I have showed today here @ nokia for a tech talk, hope you'll enjoy them, cheers Update Here you can find the updated versi...

On Obtrusive Polyfills

I'll try to make the point short and simple, starting with the tl;dr version: if you create a polyfill and during features detection yo...

A Tweet Sized Queue System

The Code This is the 138 bytes version: function Queue(args, f) { setTimeout(args.next = function next() { return (f = args.shift()) ?...

I Heard You Like To Write Less

Update apparently this proposal is being considered in es-discuss ... not the implicit return so far but the " redundant " functi...

JavaScript Test Framewors: more than 30 + 1

After @szafranek hint and suggestion, wru landed almost at the end of this Wikipedia List of unit testing frameworks page. If you use thi...

If You Don't Get It, Go And Get It!

Oh well, a rant against another one ... how lovely is this? Just trying to make your week end, right? I am talking about this misleading pos...

Berlin JS - RegExp Slides

Here they are ! (published live) If you want to test examples remember to replace weird keynote double-quotes with normal one :) Enjoy JavaS...

JSON.stringify Recursion + Max Execution Stack Exceeded

I believe this is a common problem, and we had a similar one today while debugging. JSON methods do not support recursion ... which is the o...

JS1K - Markdown

Well, it does not look that good in the js1k page , so here the link to the official demo hosted by my site . Check the source code there, ...

On EventEmitter In node.js

Today I had a whole node.js session and I have spent a bit of time looking at current EventEmitter implementation. I have twitted already t...

Y U NO use libraries and add stuff

This is an early introduction to a project I have been thinking about for a while. The project is already usable in github but the document...

Introducing ObjectHandler

since the discussion about a better Function#bind will probably never end, and since a must have dependency would be the ES6 WeakMap which i...

Improving Function.prototype.bind

There are a couple of things I have never liked that much about Function#bind and this post is about proposing a pattern hopefully better t...