[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":76},["ShallowReactive",2],{"nav-categories":3,"tag-javascript":8},{"pinned":4,"overflow":7},[5,6],"Technology","Security",[],[9],{"id":10,"title":11,"body":12,"category":5,"date":64,"description":65,"extension":66,"image":67,"imageCredit":67,"imageCreditUrl":67,"meta":68,"navigation":69,"path":70,"public":69,"seo":71,"stem":72,"tags":73,"__hash__":75},"posts\u002Fblog\u002Fan-ode-to-strange-javascript.md","An Ode To Strange JavaScript",{"type":13,"value":14,"toc":59},"minimark",[15,19,27,32,42,45,53,56],[16,17,18],"p",{},"A head melting game I discovered a few years ago.",[16,20,21,22,26],{},"Shared by a solid dude I worked with at the time. Plenty of people joke about\nthe despair of using JavaScript. ",[23,24,25],"em",{},"Erling Ellingsen"," decided that it would be fun\nto gamify it. Because you didn't have enough suffering, right?",[28,29,31],"h2",{"id":30},"return-true","Return True",[16,33,34,35,41],{},"Welcome to the weird, the bizarre, the frustrating, the strange, the JavaScript:\n",[36,37,38],"a",{"href":38,"rel":39},"https:\u002F\u002Falf.nu\u002FReturnTrue",[40],"nofollow",".",[16,43,44],{},"Even after some years there are still things that surprise me.",[16,46,47,48,52],{},"It did seem cool to hate on JavaScript for a period. So why did it then become\nthe backbone of the web? That could potentially become a great question for\nphilosophers some day. Some interesting statistics:\n",[36,49,50],{"href":50,"rel":51},"https:\u002F\u002Fw3techs.com\u002Ftechnologies\u002Fdetails\u002Fcp-javascript",[40]," to view.",[16,54,55],{},"Today, things have matured to some degree, and we should be grateful for that.\nEvolution of all things can be at times, strange.",[16,57,58],{},"I mean who doesn't love Flash or Silverlight.",{"title":60,"searchDepth":61,"depth":61,"links":62},"",2,[63],{"id":30,"depth":61,"text":31},"2023-02-01","A head melting game I discovered a few years ago that gamifies the strangeness of JavaScript.","md",null,{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fan-ode-to-strange-javascript",{"title":11,"description":65},"blog\u002Fan-ode-to-strange-javascript",[74],"javascript","CqhIPULUx2RO_aTmB6DoeOSW-hsbRPwVm1gE-bEJkC8",1778958297099]