The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (2014)(destroyallsoftware.com)

71 points by mikece 3 years ago | 35 comments

Wat [video] (2012)(destroyallsoftware.com)

356 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 126 comments

Video page for "Wat," Gary Bernhardt's CodeMash 2012 lightning talk on surprising behaviors in JavaScript and Ruby.

Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS(scrapfly.dev)

374 points by joahnn_s 3 months ago | 174 comments

Scrapfly engineering blog post explaining how OS-specific libm rounding in Math.tanh, CSS trig, and Web Audio lets anti-bot systems fingerprint a browser's host OS.

Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures(crocidb.com)

168 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 32 comments

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language(destroyallsoftware.com)

214 points by yla92 3 years ago | 25 comments