Web New ESLint rule: string "backward compatibility" considered grammatically incorrect The newest version of ESLint, a popular JavaScript linter utility, contains a new set of English grammar rules and semantic rules. This update now marks string "backward compatibility" as grammatically
JavaScript Startup raises $480M of VC money in order to fire all native app developers and switch to ElectronJS A regular SaaS company based in San Jose has been offering native macOS and Windows apps for almost 11 years. A glorified CRUD app received minor, but ultimately unnecessary updates
JavaScript Research: heavy drug users actually understand JavaScript type coercion rules Complicated rules of type coercion of JavaScript have been the bane of existence for many software developers. Recent research reveals interesting correlation between the level of heavy drug use and
JavaScript Client-side JS surpasses porn in global traffic stats Pornography has been the top contributor to Internet traffic for a long time. This month another type of morally questionable content had surpassed porn and became the top contributor to
Programming God continues to allow new JS frameworks despite endless prayer The official spokesperson of the Roman Catholic Church and The Holy See published a press release filled with clearly worrying undertones. The Church is saying that God still continues to
Web JS devs don't believe colleague who claims browsers have native scrolling An experienced web developer, who joined a large tech company in Nottingham last month, claims to have discovered a hidden, secret feature built into all web browsers: page scrolling. According
Web JAM-stack means "Just Attempt Moving off of our paid service" Leaked internal emails from employees of several startups in the JAM-stack industry reveal the true nature of the acronym. While officially JAM stands for "JavaScript, APIs, Markup", the leaks support
JavaScript Priest denies absolution to Brendan Eich for inventing JavaScript Detroit, MI—Catholic priest Trevor Noll has openly denied absolution to Brendan Eich. Many believe that Priest Noll has personal reasons. But in order to maintain legitimacy he provided several
Web Developers admit SSR stands for "Stockholm Syndrome Rendering" Server-side rendering (SSR) is a technique of rendering the state of a dynamic javascript frontend on the sever rather than on the client's browser. Allegedly, this technique improves performance and
Web 42.js: new JS framework aims to equalize build time and page load time at 42 seconds Miramichi, NEW BRUNSWICK—An ambitious new javascript framework called 42.js aims to bring a refreshing simplicity within its core mission. The authors explain: We believe it is important for
JavaScript Circular TS→JS→TS→JS transpiling yields impressive results Transpiling is a popular approach in modern JavaScript ecosystem. TypeScript, ClojureScript, CoffeeScript, Elm and other languages are compiled to JavaScript because, for the most part, JS is still the only
JavaScript Both "Inception" and "Interstellar" were inspired by JavaScript ecosystem In a recent secret interview Christopher Nolan said that the inspiration for "Inception" and "Interstellar" came from the modern JavaScript infrastructure. Nolan's friend, an experienced software developer, once spent hours
JavaScript Traces of dark matter found in node_modules Cosmologists made an important discovery purely by accident. When an ongoing research into finding dark matter within our solar system was underway, one of the scientists at the National Laboratory
Hardware Users of Electron-based software can claim tax rebate for RAM purchase The governments of largest Western countries have joined forced in an unprecedented legislative effort and jointly accepted the universal tax benefit for users of Electron-based desktop software. Once approved, any
JavaScript NPM now marks packages as abandoned after 24h since the last commit The world of JavaScript is high speed when it comes to updates. The Node Package Management ecosystem now treats packages as abandoned and deprecated as soon as 24 hours is
Programming Saying one programming language is better than another is considered hate speech Brussels, BELGIUM—New EU regulation will make it illegal to say that a particular programming language is better than any other. "Generally speaking, all Turing-complete programming languages are equal, thus
JavaScript React v16.13.1 brings server side rendering for text Among regular bug fixes and updates, React v16.13.1 silently brings a game-changing feature: TSSR—text server side rendering. Web pages are, regrettably, still mostly text, a technology which
