Nifty Snippets

The new fetch API is a great improvement on XMLHttpRequest but it does have a very surprising behavior that catches people out a lot. Sepa...

I've been recommending to people that they not rely on Automatic Semicolon Insertion for years now, and frankly wish that the strict var...

TL;DR JavaScript's date/time string format isn't ISO-8601. It's much simpler, covers fewer use cases, and assumes strings writ...

Just a snippet today, as much to remember it as anything else: If you're using VirtualBox on Linux and USB devices aren't working d...

If you use Chrome and are unfortunate enough to still have to use Java applets from time-to-time, you may recently have been unpleasantly su...

Link-post today, the Meteor blog has a very interesting post about why Meteor has so-far avoided session cookies in favor of localStorage ,...

Almost a note-to-self today. :-) Now that IE6 and IE7 are dead unless you need to support users from the far East, centering content within ...