Generate Easy to Remember, Readable UUIDs, that are Shakespearean gramatically correct sentences 🥳

Docup is a single JavaScript file that fetches Markdown file and renders it as a beautiful one-page documentation.

JS is a most popular technology, and second most wanted technology on the market, according to Stack Overflow 2018 survey. NodeJS is all over backend job ads. React vs Angular is the new tabs vs spaces.

Here we have a gem. JavaScript’s author saying that JS was meant to be what BASIC was to C++ and that was the sales pitch for it. This post is not about technicalities of JS. It’s about how our pluralistic ignorance allowed toy language to first become de-facto language in the browser, then work it’s way to the server side and now being used for things such as console emulation and data science.

As the title indicates, I consider JS being popular a bad thing. To begin with, JS is a very bad language. The Wat talk does brilliant job of explaining what is wrong.

I recently built a small agent-based model using Python and wanted to visualize the model in action. But as much as Python is an ideal tool for scientific computation (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), it's not as good for dynamic visualization (pygame?).

You know what's a very mature and flexible tool for drawing graphics? The DOM! For simple graphics you can use HTML and CSS; for more complicated stuff you can use Canvas, SVG, or WebGL

Unlock the Power of Web Components. Polymer is a JavaScript library that helps you create custom reusable HTML elements, and use them to build performant, maintainable apps.

Data visualization is the mechanism of taking tabular or spatial data and conveying it in a human-friendly and visual way. In this article we look at eight open source tools that can help you to create useful and informative graphs.