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Articles about web development and programming in general.

MDX: The good, the bad, and the ugly

If you have your own blog and like the simplicity of Markdown, but don’t want to give up JSX, you may want to give MDX a try.

Allonsay’s language classification algorithm

How you can detect the language of texts, without using the “ML” word.

Finding the most common words in a set of texts for a word cloud

Alternatively: why word counting is nothing like bean counting.

(Not) looping over lists in PHP

This post discusses three common array functions: map, reduce, and filter.

Datetime formatting in Go

Go’s time package takes a novel approach to defining datetime serialisation formats. Is it an improvement over existing alternatives?