Installing a piece of code from NPM will no longer auto-run malware on the system, and won’t quietly pull malicious code from external repos unless the developer explicitly allows it. But this won’t ...

The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from ...

These days, the best iPhone apps can be a challenge to find, due to there being almost two million apps available to download in the App Store. You're usually reduced to checking the top charts to see ...

Serverless MySQL is a wrapper for Doug Wilson's amazing mysql2 Node.js module. Normally, using the mysql2 module with Node apps would be just fine. However, serverless functions (like AWS Lambda, ...

WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments. In just four short years, WebAssembly has ...

My name is Scott and I'm a programmer in Missouri. I write things in PHP, Python, Javascript, and SQL. My name is Scott and I'm a programmer in Missouri. I write things in PHP, Python, Javascript, and ...

A few years ago, Bloomberg Engineering decided to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language. This article shares some of the insights and lessons we learned during this journey. The ...

MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database, not a traditional relational database, written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Being a document database does not mean storing ...