Benchmark of Elementary Mathematical Operations in Node.js
How fast or slow are common mathematical operations to execute in a web browser or Node.js? How slow is a division when compared to a multiplication or a sine f...
Tag: javascript
World Birth Rate Visualization
To answer the need to create the first meaningful data visualization with my rain animation library Sprinkler.js, I needed a topic. The topic had to deal with a...
Published Bit Chest
Have you ever needed to request a photo or a document from your friend, customer, or co-worker? This simple task of sharing a file often becomes unbelievably ha...
Contribution to the Official Node.js Redis Client
Today I improved the public documentation of the official Redis database client for Node.js via a GitHub pull request. The improvement was just a tiny clarifica...
JSON.parse vs JSON.stringify
JSON.parse and JSON.stringify are two JavaScript functions that are used to convert JavaScript objects to JSON strings and vice versa. Today I wanted to test do...
Tapspace.js – A lib for Zoomable Web Apps
A zoomable web application has a zoomable user interface, a ZUI. For a familiar example, the user interface of Google Maps is a ZUI. A user can zoom in and out ...
genversion: client-safe version prop for npm modules
JavaScript modules published at the node package manager npm have a version string written in a file called package.json. Sometimes it is beneficial to bundle t...
Nudged: a fast transformation estimator
As a part of my master’s thesis and my work at Infant Cognition Laboratory, I developed an open source JavaScript and Python software package called nudge...
categorical-distribution.js: a probability distribution package for JavaScript
The categorical distribution is like a bowl of colored balls. Let us say we know know the bowl statistics, meaning that we know how many balls there are of each...
Sprinkler.js: a rainy animation library
Sprinkler is an image rain animation library for web sites. During Christmas 2014, I wanted to write something fun, a web animation about falling snowflakes. It...