The problem was isolated to a leaking of the local variable out into the global context. You can see this if you try the following program: When the function executes the alert displays 0,0,0 which ...

There is a rule about not optimizing code too soon. Perhaps we should add to that the rule that being too tidy is often a mistake. Here we have a JavaScript example where things go wrong because of an ...

A vanilla JavaScript rebuild of Meowdoku highlights how far a small ruleset can go when the design is built around constraints instead of content volume. The puzzle’s entire structure rests on a few ...