Having recently written about character references in HTML, I figured it would be interesting to look into JavaScript character escapes as well.

Are you using MySQL’s utf8 charset in your databases? In this write-up I’ll explain why you should switch to utf8mb4 instead, and how to do it.

Looking for a list of all reserved words in JavaScript? You’ve come to the right place. I recently needed such a list myself, but ended up comparing the reserved keywords in all ECMAScript versions as well. The result is listed below, for future reference.

This post explains a hidden gem in the XMLHttpRequest standard that simplifies fetching and parsing JSON data through Ajax.

Content Security Policy can be used to generate reports describing attempts to attack your site. This post briefly explains how this works, and presents a simple example script that can be used to process these reports.

By default, composing a new email in Gmail results in an HTML email under the hood. It’s possible to opt-out of that and use plain text email instead, but that leads to some problems.

Compared to using promises directly, not only can async and await make code more readable for developers — they enable some interesting optimizations in JavaScript engines, too! This write-up is about one such optimization involving stack traces for asynchronous code.

The state government on Saturday further eased the lockdown restrictions in non-containment areas, including permission for take-away services at tea shops, and allowing shops selling essential goods such as groceries, vegetables and medicines to remain open from 6am to 7pm, across the state from Monday.

All the 356 passengers who arrived from Dubai by the first two rescue flights were sent to quarantine centres after their throat and nasal swabs were taken at Chennai airport on Saturday. The first flight IX 612 had 179 passengers and the second 177.

The diagnosis of cancer is a shock in itself and then comes another - the risk of infertility

: Hundreds of students from Bihar, who are still stranded in other states, are desperate to take the first train or flight back to their native places. They stay in private accommodations and are finding in difficult to arrange for food after running out of money amid the Covid-19 lockdown.

Even as a large number of cases are being reported from para-military forces in other states, Bihar is yet to record any Covid-19 case among the personnel posted in the state.

With Muzaffarpur too entering the state Covid-19 map with three positive cases on Saturday, Bihar’s green zones is expected to shrink further in the revised list of color-coded zones likely to be released by the Centre on Monday. Jamui is now the only one out of the 38 districts with no positive cases so far.