By the end of the post, you'll see that because most of our JS code runs on highly optimized engines, performance and readability are not mortal enemies. In fact, readable Javascript is frequently the same as performant Javascript.
Source: JavaScript readability vs performance: a false tradeoff, an article by Shimin Zhang.
You may know that all numbers in JavaScript are 64 bit double-precision floating point values. This is sometimes convenient and it works pretty well as a default for novice programmers, who are often confused by integer math, and rightfully so when
1 / 2 = 0. Unfortunately, it makes things slow. Doubles take a lot of memory and floating point math is slower than integer math on CPUs. It's also inconvenient if you want to port existing code to JavaScript, because existing code usually expects to use integer math.Fortunately, there is a way to make JavaScript do integer math, and it works remarkably well!
Source: Integer math in JavaScript, an article by James Darpinian.
When you maintain a project, publishing new releases can quickly become a chore, so naturally one tries to automate it as much as possible.
One release step which is often automated is updating the changelog. We already have git commit messages, so let's gather all the messages since the last tag and "Voilà!" changelog entries for the new version!
There is however a problem with this idea:
Git commit messages and changelogs do not have the same target audience.
Source: Your git log is not a changelog!, an article by Aurélien Gâteau.
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.
Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy—the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes—a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib....
In the evening I started in the sixth Dune Novel by Frank Herbert: Chapterhouse: Dune.