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Thanks for the comment. The benchmark might seem like apples-to-oranges, but they both do templating & routing, which is what is being tested. I also address this on the benchmark …

Strangely enough, many countries also have cultural laws around what languages can be used for subtitles and audio tracks. For example, IIRC there is a country in SA that doesn't a…

I really like the line art logo on the site, but it's 2.4 MB (avatar.png). Might want to size it down and run it through TinyPNG. :)

If you're into this kind of thing, I made a similar Turtle clone with a simpler syntax: http://prismaco.de/ But I also like the approach here of using Turtle as a way to introduce …

Double-arrows let you signify that the tag is different with no extra effort because it's just an extra tap where your finger is already positioned. It also has a right directional…

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I can understand that it might not seem useful to you if you already have a stack you've invested in, or it just doesn't fit the kind of projects you …

I've used Node for many years, but I do find it too complex for some of my projects. Sometimes you just need a handful of dynamic pages that you want to put up on a shared host som…

Douglas Crockford also has a good article on how to implement Pratt parsing in JavaScript: https://crockford.com/javascript/tdop/tdop.html I referenced it often when I implemented …

Netflix employee here. You can find out a lot about our culture from our culture page: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture It's not just marketing fluff. It really does a good job of …

As a Netflix employee, I wouldn't really describe our culture as cutthroat at all. My experience in 5 years has almost entirely devoid of politics. For example, from our culture pa…

Netflix employee here. We have a high performance culture, certainly, but it's not the singular focus. I have probably seen just as many people let go for their inability to work w…

This is why I introduced LockStrings as a key feature of THT (a language that compiles to PHP). It takes the opposite approach to Perl's taint mode. You mark string literals as saf…

Most of the principles are always in tension to some degree, and come down to a design decision. In this case, the shorter, clearer term won out. The two terms are practically syno…

I've been a designer/programmer pretty much my entire career and currently work on a research-centric UX design team. So while I've been designing my own language (THT, a language …

Nice work so far. There seems to be growing interest in online roleplaying, but most of the current offerings are lacking right now. I personally launched Fabletop.com a couple of …

I've just launched Fabletop, a web-based "virtual tabletop" for roleplaying. It was created with jQuery on the front-end, and Node on the back end. When you register, you get your …