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[...] spent. Using clock_gettime() for maximum precision, the results were: ~0.3 seconds to compute magic values (0.2s to apply a box blur to smooth out noise, and 0.1s to actually compute the values) ~0.9 [...]

[...] . We could instead create a module, and have only that module’s name public – we clean up the global namespace and also get private variables for free! The module pattern is an amazingly useful [...]

[...] doSomething 3. check both flags in doSomething: But this is a bit ugly, as it litters the global namespace with two flags that are only used there. Instead, thanks to Javascript’s lexical scope we [...]

Long time no blog! Let’s get back into it with a nifty and clean way of retaining state in Javascript – closures. I was recently looking for an e [...]

[...] against common mistakes and hint you towards best practices. It’s available either as a Perl module or a standalone shell script (perlcritic). Unfortunately, there is no standard way to [...]

[...] to our js file. Result: a pure event-driven wait for a callback, a single variable in the global js namespace, and a cleaned-up HTML. And of course… We ended up not using it. The ad code actually [...]

[...] Perl::Critic is a nifty syntax analyzer able to parse your Perl code, warn you against common mistakes and hint you towards best practices. It’s available either as [...]

Perl::Critic is a nifty syntax analyzer able to parse your Perl code, warn you against common mistakes and hint you towards best practices. It’s ava [...]

Sorry, this is a rant. I was recently investigating Maven plugins for LESS compilation. The use-case is pretty run-of-the-mill (I think?): I want to [...]