plainJS - The Vanilla JavaScript Repository
Some more useful snippets of JavaScript. The functions and helpers are particularly handy if you’re weaning yourself off jQuery.
Link archive: September 26th, 2017
Essential Vanilla JavaScript Functions
The title is overkill, but these functions ported from PHP to JavaScript could be useful (especially for dealing with arrays).
Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh, and the people who made it.
Like a real-life Halt And Catch Fire.
No Planes Go (Upsideclown)
A near-future tale of post-Brexit Kafkaesque isolationism in the skies.
It turned out that taking back control also meant creating an aerial deadzone. Nothing can fly in here without a Library of Alexandria’s worth of paperwork, and nothing can fly out without the same.
Occasionally, people e-mail me to say something along the lines of “I’ve come up with something to replace HTML!”.
Five years ago, Hixie outlined the five metrics that a competitor to the web would have to score well in:
- Be completely devoid of any licensing requirements.
- Be vendor-neutral.
- Be device-neutral and media-neutral.
- Be content-neutral.
- Be radically better than the existing Web.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
The Woman Who Smashed Codes - Jason Fagone - Hardcover
This book—released today—looks right up my alley.
After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies.