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• Helsinki JS. April edition

  Helsinki JS meetup was held in the office of Hive. Venue and talks were definitely worth the visit. Organizers did a great job and announced quite curious information about the upcoming summer event.
  April 2024

• Ruble Roller Coaster

  I've build during one winter evening art object of Ruble Roller Coaster, which is a metaphor of exchange rate of russian ruble to US dollar.
  March 2024

• Immigrant song of healthy human

  March 2024

• What I like in the old codebase of web projects. it's chance to see history of real projects in old "dark" times of web. For example you take a look on the line code of project with 10 years history:

  scaleZoom = Math.log(scale) / Math.LN2;

  And you remember school course of algebra with properties of logarithms like ${\log }_{a}b=\frac{{\log }_{c}b}{{\log }_{c}a}$ and also remember that support of Math.log2 in browsers was added a little bit later than Math.log and developers with math in mind used to made this trick.

  March 2024

• Another package registry

  JSR, a new package registry for JavaScript. Is it really needed? Or it's just a new hype?
  March 2024

• Finally, express just got clear roadmap for at least three upcoming releases. Better late then never!

  February 2024

• Well, seems like we have a fog like in the Stephen King's "The Mist" here in Helsinki and already for the whole week

  
  February 2024

• My 2023 in glance

  2023 goes to the end and it's time to look back and see what happened.
  December 2023

• Annoyed by cookie banners? Firefox to the rescue!

  Recently released Firefox 120 is introducing a new feature, which will allow you to get rid of cookie banners on websites by automatically rejecting them.
  November 2023

• Analogue of 2048 with Emoji

  I've built game with Emoji, which is, basically, analogue of 2048, but built on concept of Zero-Width-Joiner. It's called Emerji.
  November 2023

• React event internals

  Recently I've become curious about mechanisms of resubscription to events in React when event handler property to component changed. Some things I already knew about it, but some things become interesting to discover. Share with you about them in this video
  August 2023

• 8 things I hate in React Native

  As an experienced React Native engineer I have some thoughts about things that I don't like about this technology. Let's discuss eight parts of React Native, which I hate the most
  August 2023

• Jetpack Compose vs React Native

  I'm sharing my experience and my thoughts about Jetpack Compose and React Native. Also, I will make my hands dirty with examples of code on Kotlin and I also developed a simple application on Android with React Native and Jetpack Compose to compare to approaches of development mobile application
  July 2023

• Elvis Operator

  Elvis operator in many computer languages is a super powerful thing. But what is the origin of this operator and is it exists in JavaScript?
  June 2023

• Glitchy Da Vinci. "Twitter, RSS, AJAX are legacy?"

  This episode is dedicated to the events that happened to me this week: a couple of broken instruments, but at the same time a couple of good things also happened to me
  April 2023

• Logical problem game on Three.js

  Once upon a time, with my colleagues I discussed one funny old logical problem which becomes a basement for the 3D game on Three.js
  April 2023

• Glitchy Da Vinci. "Nedd Ludd"

  Should we be scared about upcoming artificial intelligence? Does society have experience with overcoming technical revolution? Let's talk about the Industrial Revolution and its takeaways.
  April 2023

• FOSDEM 2023

  Every year I'm looking forward to FOSDEM. It's a great place to meet interesting enthusiastic people from all corners of the World and have endless chats, ask questions and encourage yourself to be part of it
  February 2023

• Junction 2022

  The Junction 2022 hackathon was amazing. I worked in a team together with my ex-colleague and we have developed an application that measures the pulse when browsing websites
  November 2022

• Fragile semantic patch

  Looks like nobody cares about semantic versioning in JavaScript world. Recently I faced with strange behaviour of quite usual command during development of React Native application
  July 2022

• Super-fast Node.js alternative

  Bun is a super-fast Node.js alternative written in Zig. Let's see if it's worth it after some time
  July 2022

• Data views in Obsidian

  How to use the Obsidian Data View plugin to extract and display data from the frontmatter section of files in the table format
  June 2022

• Asexual pronoun

  Asexual pronoun in different languages is quite interesting topic. With usage of Google Translate API we can check the difference in the translation of the words "She" and "He" in different languages
  June 2022

• Emoji in JS strings

  Emoji are not simple characters, they are more complex than you think. Let's consider how they are represented in JavaScript strings
  April 2022

• Class prototype

  A brief explanation of the difference between the prototype property of a class and a function
  April 2022

• How to save time with ZSH completion system

  Do you know that you can create your own completion for your Git aliases which can make network requests to API? I will show you how to do that.
  May 2021

• How to execute JS like a binary

  How to execute JavaScript files like a binary file with usage of Linux custom binary formats
  May 2021

• Итоги 2020 года

  В этом посте я расскажу о своих достижениях и событиях, которые произошли в 2020 году
  December 2020