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How to avoid JavaScript
Despite the JavaScript revolution, people still resist it
Jul 8, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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Stunning the non-JavaScript web developers
What were the Django people doing while JavaScript was becoming popular?
Jul 7, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
How JavaScript became popular—recap
The JavaScript explosion was initiated by a series of events from 2008 to 2015
Jul 6, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
How JavaScript became popular—part 5
The frameworks changed the way web applications work
Jul 5, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
June 2021
How JavaScript became popular—part 4
JavaScript was a bad language but Babel helped work around the problem
Jun 30, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
How JavaScript became popular—part 3
Running the same language on the server and on the browser was quite appealing
Jun 25, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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How JavaScript became popular—part 2
In 2009 you no longer needed a browser to run JavaScript.
Jun 18, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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How JavaScript became popular—part 1
Google Chrome precipitated the JavaScript revolution
Jun 17, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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Why most software is substandard
Programmers are condemned by the nature of programming itself to make bad software
Jun 2, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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Some names should be better left meaningless
Jun 1, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
May 2021
Gregorian calendar fun fact
Why was the calendar moved by ten days? Why not nine or eleven?
May 28, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
Can math be written better?
Ideas from programming could help make math more understandable
May 27, 2021
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Antonis Christofides
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