Beautiful JavaScript

This is an excerpt from Beautiful JavaScript, a book edited by Anton Kovalyov and published by O’Reilly.

Functions are first-class citizens, syntax resembles Java, inheritance is prototypal, and (+””) equals zero. This is JavaScript, arguably the most polarizing and…

Simple Style Sheets

Or How to Improve Your Sleep by Dropping the Cascade

What happens when you drop the “C” from CSS? At Medium, we’ve been experimenting with a new way of using CSS to style our user interface components: a few months ago we started…

Beautiful JavaScript is now available in Chinese!

Thanks O'Reilly for sending me a copy.

Heaven and hell

Suzuki told an old Chinese folk tale about the difference between heaven and hell. In hell everyone has very short arms. They sit around tables full of sumptuous food, trying to eat with very long chopsticks, but they can’t get the food in their mouths because chopsticks are too long and their arms…