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.

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.

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.

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

Seems like we have a fog like in the Stephen King's "The Mist" here in Helsinki and already for the whole week.

A recent European Digital Markets Act (DMA) made Apple to act. According to the new rules, Apple will allow alternative browser engines inside iOS. From iOS 17.4 it will be possible to install applications from third-party stores, which will be approved by Apple and applications will be checked separately for possible malware.

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

I moved to Helsinki this year and I've started this long process of adaptation and learning. Found accidentally in the Internet funny game about rural life in Finland.

You might think that HTML is not programming, but rather a markup language. And you will be correct, until you are not a user of html.js library, which considers every tag in your document as a command, and your document overall as a stack for these commands.

Law about exception in paying off tax for someone who replaces water consumption meters if they were stolen in Brazilian city Porto Alegre was done with the help of ChatGPT.