How to Define America in 30 Objects

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

We’ve got a date when the sun will destroy Earth – sue us if we’re wrong

The date the world will end has been nailed down – but you still have time for quite a few pints before our planet Earth is screwed. Our life in the solar system relies on the sun, but the fiery ...
GitHub

mutf-8: An Encoder and Decoder for Modified UTF-8

Null character: The null character U+0000 is encoded as a 2-byte sequence 0xC0 0x80 instead of the single byte 0x00. Supplementary characters: Characters whose code points are above U+FFFF are encoded ...
GitHub

A list of funny and tricky JavaScript examples

JavaScript is a great language. It has a simple syntax, large ecosystem and, what is most important, a great community. At the same time, we all know that JavaScript is quite a funny language with ...
IEEE

Discovering JavaScript Object Notation

Abstract: JSON is moving from being an underground secret, known and used by very few, to becoming the clear choice for mainstream data applications. The first Web extra is a video interview with ...