Reflecting on bits

Game of life in simplest terms

Hi there!

I was always compelled to implement Conway’s game of life. What a blunt start of the story 😆.

But yeah, I’ve always was astonished of how quite simple starting conditions and equally simple set of rules can lead…

Fun exercise: sum of numbers through infinite currying in JS.

There’s a fun question (depending on you definition of fun, of course 😆). How do you write function sum, so that the following is true?

sum(1) == 1;//true
sum(1)(2) == 3;//true
sum(1)(4)(1) ==…

Internals of momentum scrolling in GMail iOS web app are pretty interesting!

Why would anyone want to re-implement scrolling in browser? The quick answer would be: in modern times — no-one. Isn’t it obvious? Well, it turns out, not quite.

How to solve ‘missing %output%’ error when using Closure Compiler.

TLDR; Use --output_wrapper_file option.

If you’re, like me, using closurebuilder.py to launch Closure Compiler compilation using output_wrapper option, you might be encountering this error:

How to export closure-compiled code in npm module.

Recently, I’ve discovered that it’s somewhat non-trivial to add block of closure-compiled code to npm as a module.

In order for it to be discoverable by Node.js module system, I did the following: