Douglas Crockford

Most-linked posts?

1. Base 32
   12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-02-20
2. DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020)
   10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-01-30
3. JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (2001)
   8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-12-13
4. The Little Javascripter
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2009-09-26
5. Douglas Crockford's Wrrrld Wide Web (JSON+Javascript: The good parts)
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2008-03-12
6. Misty Programming Language
   7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-06-10
7. JavaScript: The Most Misunderstood Programming Language (2001)
   7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-04-19
8. /wrmg/base32.html
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-10-09
9. Top Down Operator Precedence (2007)
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-01-11
10. /little.html
    5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-08-14

What Hacker News says?

1. smlckz · 2020-04-27

   JavaScript is very expressive and powerful language. Maybe hard to learn. The prototypal inheritence and 'this' were confusing to me and took much time to understand those. Then I learnt that prototypal inheritance is a superset of ''class''ical inheritance [1] as well as this [2]. Hmm. With Reflect, Proxy etc. you have great metaprogramming capabilities that make this language much powerful. Still, there are some (…

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   on “Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)”
2. breck · 2019-10-13

   Submitted Tilton as a story · 131 points

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3. Merad · 2024-06-06

   I'd recommend using Crockford base 32 [0] to encode the bytes. It makes the text more human friendly by eliminating case sensitivity, removing similar/ambiguous letters, and preventing accidental profanity. And in most cases I think you're also better off just using a uuid and encoding its bytes as base 32, in which case you're basically doing type id's [1]. If the "slug" portion of the id actually encodes a uuid, t…

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   on “You'll regret using natural keys”
4. riffraff · 2011-04-21

   Submitted Actual JavaScript Engine Performance as a story · 107 points

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5. ants_everywhere · 2025-11-17

   this construction is familiar to anyone who has taken a course on writing post middle or high school. The formal version is "not only... but also" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/... , which I personally use regularly but I often write formally even in informal settings. "not just... but" is just the less formal version. Google ngrams shows the "not just ... but" construction has a sharp…

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   on “Open-source Zig book”
6. vinhnx · 2025-11-01

   Submitted DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020) as a story · 77 points

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7. DonHopkins · 2016-09-04

   Maybe this is long game karma revenge for his notorious role in spreading communicable diseases in Habitat. [1] Disease One of the more successful "games" we invented for Habitat was the disease. There are three strains currently defined: Cooties Happy Face Mutant (AKA The Fly) We only were able to test Cooties with live players, but it was a hit. It works like this: Several initial Avatars are infected with a "Coot…

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   on “In defence of Douglas Crockford”
8. open-paren · 2022-09-06

   Submitted The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it as a story · 76 points

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9. pkulak · 2020-04-02

   Or my personal favorite for anything you show to a user: https://www.crockford.com/base32.html

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   on “‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems”
10. edw519 · 2008-09-11

    Submitted This is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me. as a story · 74 points

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11. kolme · 2015-04-08

    Jepp: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

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    on “John Resig annotates original jQuery source code”
12. Matrixik · 2023-12-30

    Submitted Misty Programming Language as a story · 58 points

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13. pacaro · 2018-03-27

    Also feeding it text from the Anguish Languish[1] corpus is pretty good. [1] https://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/anguish.html

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    on “Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology”
14. shawndumas · 2010-05-03

    Submitted Permanent Weight Loss as a story · 49 points

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15. _0ffh · 2020-10-27

    Yeah, the advantage here is that once you wrote your Pratt parser it's a nice, quite generic piece of code that you can just drop into any new project, reconfigure a bit and it does it's job. Don't know what page you mean, but personally I first stumbled upon it on Douglas Crockford's page [1]. A couple of years later Eli Bendersky did a nice writeup for Python [2]. I wrote my first Pratt parser in D, based on Crock…

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    on “Parsing Algorithms”
16. shawndumas · 2011-04-28

    Submitted An Introduction to Xiangqi for Chess Players as a story · 48 points

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17. rileyphone · 2022-11-16

    Smalltalk in Self: nearly complete Smalltalk implementation on similar prototypical language. http://www.merlintec.com/download/mario.pdf Mootools: ancient class system for Javascript. https://mootools.net/core Also, here's a very old Crockford article on implementing classes in Javascript. https://crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html

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    on “What’s so great about functional programming anyway?”
18. helium · 2009-09-26

    Submitted The Little Javascripter as a story · 46 points

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19. PavlovsCat · 2014-04-12

    Let me try then: http://www.crockford.com/pwl/

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    on “Memories of Steve”
20. pajtai · 2015-09-28

    Submitted Douglas Crockford's JavaScript Encyclopedia as a story · 44 points

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21. rottc0dd · 2021-06-28

    Did not read the whole parent comment and my message is redundant. But, yes, objectively decimal can represent more numbers (the numbers that are composed of 1/2 and 1/5). I think there are arguments to use decimal as representation is there, (where I originally came to know about this problem) [1]. [1] - https://www.crockford.com/dec64.html

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    on “JavaScript Is Weird”
22. jasongullickson · 2010-03-25

    Submitted If you think Apple's app store policies are ambigious, try Nintendo's as a story · 44 points

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23. PabloSichert · 2020-02-20

    Hm, that's an interesting choice. I also wonder why they didn't use an encoding that has an alphabet with 2^n characters (that way you can directly map 1 charater to n bits when decoding). Coincidentally, I've just finished some work on a project[1] that is in the same space (identifiers for images). For the reasons you pointed out, I found Douglas Crockford's base32[2] encoding to be a good fit. [1] https://github.…

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    on “BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder”
24. mark_l_watson · 2009-12-13

    Submitted JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (2001) as a story · 35 points

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25. EtDybNuvCu · 2018-04-04

    I'm not gonna bother quoting you to fisk you. Your approach towards my evidence is weak overall. I'm gonna throw more evidence at you. Miller and Dean Tribble have been working on WeakRefs lately: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs Crockford's personal site no longer has the original JSON description, and neither does the Wayback Machine, but his site does still have a section on E: http://www.crockford.com/…

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    on “Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018”
26. anish_m · 2012-11-05

    Submitted Classical Inheritance in JavaScript as a story · 31 points

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27. caillou · 2022-03-10Recommends

    Reading this helped me a lot: https://www.crockford.com/pwl.html

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    on “Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?”
28. Tomte · 2024-05-13

    Submitted Prototypal Inheritance (2008) as a story · 29 points

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29. 0xbadcafebee · 2022-02-05

    I think you're thinking of YAML; JSON doesn't interpret "no" as a boolean. Scroll down here to see the JSON grammar: https://www.crockford.com/mckeeman.html I actually think the "Norway problem" is a PEBKAC from users not learning the data format. But this tool may confuse some people or applications who don't know what a boolean, integer, float or string are, and try to mix types when the program reading them wasn'…

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    on “Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)”
30. susam · 2021-06-22

    Submitted McKeeman Form (2020) as a story · 27 points

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