JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player - shaka-project/shaka-player... (more…)

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned... (more…)

I may be one of the last people you would expect to write an essay criticizing JavaScript, but here we are. Two of my primary areas of… (more…)

You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. And wow is it great. But no one seems to do it. Why? Perhaps emoji are too exotic for normie web platforms to handle? Or maybe they are avoided fo... (more…)

Keeping your UI in sync can be tricky. Matt Ruby introduces MobX, a library for efficiently subscribing to changes in your application state...