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Around 1996 or 1997, I started writing HTML. My family did not have internet access yet. But we owned a computer with a CD-ROM drive. On a CD-ROM that came with a video gaming magazine, I found some .HTM files. The magazine had shipped its website as HTML files on this CD-ROM because few people had internet access. I opened the files in Internet...
Content note: Mention of fictional death in a video game Almost three years ago, I wrote about Factorio, a factory simulation game. I lamented on the distorted relationship between human and nature and how the game negates the principles of human and non-human life. On Twitter, Dr Annie Burman followed up with a thread I recommend reading as a...
Preface on asynchrony One of the defining features of the web is technical asynchrony. Web standards, web clients – like browsers – and web pages are never fully aligned in time. They meet sometimes but most of the time one is ahead or lags behind. Web standards are usually ahead of browsers and websites. They are designed, then browsers start...
One of the biggest changes in JavaScript in the last decade was the switch from loosely-connected scripts to ECMAScript modules (ESM). This affected both client-side and server-side JavaScript code. JavaScript programmers today take it for granted that they can pull a library dependency into client-side or server-side JavaScript code with npm...
A continuation of An update on Robust Client-Side JavaScript – Where is client-side JavaScript heading? The Great Divide is now a Great War JavaScript critics are effing mad right now. For well-documented reasons. And they do not mince matters any longer. The web development community has never been so divided. The Great Divide is now a Great...
In 2017, I published the online book Robust Client-Side JavaScript – A Developer’s Guide. More than five years later, I think my advice is still valuable. JavaScript as a language has not changed much when it come to techniques for writing robust code. At the moment I do not have the time for a substantial book update. In this post, I would like...
The video game Factorio got me hooked and I have played it longer than any other single-player game. While it is still in the early access phase and scheduled to be released in August, more than two million copies of the game have been sold. Video games today are multifaceted. As video games gained in depth and complexity in the last decade,...
Im Jahr 2010 habe ich einen wichtigen Grundlagenartikel ins Deutsche übersetzt: Mit »JavaScript. The Core.« fasste Dmitry Soshnikov seine Artikelreihe über die Funktionsweise von ECMAScript zusammen. ECMAScript ist der Webstandard, der der allgegenwärtigen Programmiersprache JavaScript zugrunde liegt. Seitdem ist der ECMAScript-Standard...
🗼 Table of Contents molily Mastodon molily Mastodon Robust Client-Side JavaScript Download this book as EPUB (724 KB) Table of Contents Introduction Characteristics of JavaScript The browser as a...