It's never been easier to try nodejs modules!
Inspiration comes from a leiningen plugin called lein-try that allows you to try out clojure libraries without having to declare them in an existing project.

Table of ES2015 support for all supported and nightly versions of node, based on the kangax compat table.

WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance - a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly is being developed in a W3C Community Group (CG) whose members include Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple.

Mathias explains why target="_blank" is a huge security issue, and what is the solution.

DeviceOrientationEvent uses relative degrees, and there's a new DeviceOrientationAbsoluteEvent.

Describes new features introduced in versions of Safari.Safari 9.1 is out with features like picture element, CSS variables, will-change, removed 300ms delay, etc.

Also note: iOS user agent is reporting a wrong Safari version (9.0), in case you need to do UA sniffing.

Gulp 4 is almost ready, so here are some tips how to migrate from Gulp 3.

Exploring JavaScript thunks as the foundations of promises.                                                  

When talking about functional programming languages, there tends to be a few flavors: Haskell and Lisp, with plenty of debate over which is better. Although they are both functional languages, they are in fact quite different, each with their own trade-offs.

Dealing with CSS performance can be quite interesting. Various factors, like what properties we use, can have detrimental effects on the usability of a page.

3D Visualisation of music using WebGL                                                  

Transmit data at 44.1khz using Web Audio                                                  

Most of the tools we use today didn’t even really exist a year ago: React, JSX, Flux, Redux, ES6, Babel, etc. Even setting up a ‘modern’ project requires installing a swath of dependencies and build tools that are all new. No other language does anything remotely resembling that kind of thing.

Steve McGuire shares how Netflix achieved a completely declarative, React-based architecture that’s fast on the devices in your living room.

Frameworks are one of the hugest anti-patterns in software development. They're hard to learn. They limit your creativity. They increase your project's complexity and dependencies. They go out of business and get abandoned. You have to maintain and upgrade your code to match the latest framework versions for no good reason.

Our web needs better primitive libraries. We’ve been relying for too long – far too long – on jQuery. Most popular UI components are tied to jQuery, part of a comprehensive framework – and it’s usually hard to extract the component as a standalone library. Nowadays we may not develop as many jQuery plugins as we’ve used to, but the situation is far more severe now.

Let’s say we are building an online palindrome calculator tool, thanks to Javascript it’s a hight level language, you came up with a clean solution very fast, but after some days you realize that your algorithm is not as good as it look, actually is very slow, so you start exploring new horizons…