diff --git a/lib/random/random.js b/lib/random/random.js
index 8986d47..85794f2 100644
--- a/lib/random/random.js
+++ b/lib/random/random.js
@@ -8,32 +8,25 @@ const logger = require('../logging')
 class random {
   /**
    * Must be called before any other methods can be called to initialize MersenneTwister
-   * @param {number|null|undefined} seed - Value to initialize MersenneTwister
+   * @param {?number} seed - Value to initialize MersenneTwister
    */
-  static init (seed) {
-    if (seed === null || seed === undefined) {
-      random.seed = new Date().getTime()
-    } else {
-      random.seed = seed
+  static init (seed = null) {
+    if (seed === null) {
+      seed = new Date().getTime()
     }
-
     random.twister = new MersenneTwister()
-    random.twister.seed(random.seed)
+    random.twister.seed(seed)
   }
 
   /**
    * Returns an integer in [0, limit) (uniform distribution)
    * @param {number} limit
    */
-  static number (limit) {
+  static number (limit = 0xffffffff) {
     if (!random.twister) {
       throw new Error('random.init must be called first.')
     }
 
-    if (limit === null || limit === undefined) {
-      limit = 0xffffffff
-    }
-
     let x = (0x100000000 / limit) >>> 0
     let y = (x * limit) >>> 0
     let r
@@ -151,43 +144,35 @@ class random {
       throw new TypeError(`random.choose() received non-array type: (${list})`)
     }
 
-    let total = 0
-    for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
-      total += list[i][0]
-    }
-
-    let n = random.number(total)
-    for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
-      if (n < list[i][0]) {
-        if (flat === true) {
-          return list[i][1]
-        } else {
-          return random.pick([list[i][1]])
-        }
+    const expanded = []
+    list.forEach(([weight, value]) => {
+      while (weight--) {
+        expanded.push(value)
       }
-      n = n - list[i][0]
-    }
+    })
 
     if (flat) {
-      return list[0][1]
+      return random.item(expanded)
     }
 
-    return random.pick([list[0][1]])
+    return random.pick(expanded)
   }
 
   /**
-   * More memory-hungry but hopefully faster than random.choose$flat.
-   * @param {*} wa
+   * Return a flattened list of weighted values
+   * [{w: 1, v: 'foo'}, {w: 1, v: 'bar'}]
+   * @param {Array} list
+   * @param {Array}
    */
-  static weighted (wa) {
-    let a = []
-    for (let i = 0; i < wa.length; ++i) {
-      for (let j = 0; j < wa[i].w; ++j) {
-        a.push(wa[i].v)
+  static weighted (list) {
+    const expanded = []
+    list.forEach((item) => {
+      while (item.w--) {
+        expanded.push(item.v)
       }
-    }
+    })
 
-    return a
+    return expanded
   }
 
   static use (obj) {
diff --git a/lib/utils/common.js b/lib/utils/common.js
index d35f2ef..3e26da8 100644
--- a/lib/utils/common.js
+++ b/lib/utils/common.js
@@ -1,50 +1,11 @@
 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+const entities = new (require('html-entities').XmlEntities)()
 const jsesc = require('jsesc')
 const utils = require('../utils')
 
 class common extends utils {
-  /**
-   * Return stringified object
-   * @param obj
-   * @returns {string}
-   */
-  static objToString (obj) {
-    try {
-      return `${obj}`
-    } catch (e) {
-      return `[${e}]`
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return enumerable properties recursively
-   * @param obj
-   * @returns {Array}
-   */
-  static getAllProperties (obj) {
-    let list = []
-    while (obj) {
-      list = list.concat(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj))
-      obj = Object.getPrototypeOf(obj)
-    }
-    return list
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return all properties (non-recursive)
-   * @param obj
-   * @returns {Array}
-   */
-  static getKeysFromHash (obj) {
-    let list = []
-    for (let p in obj) {
-      list.push(p)
-    }
-    return list
-  }
-
   /**
    * Escape and quote a string
    * @param s - String to be quoted
@@ -64,6 +25,19 @@ class common extends utils {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Remove quotes and escape sequence from string
+   * @param {string} s
+   * @returns {string}
+   */
+  static unquote (s) {
+    return s.replace(/\\'/g, '\'')
+      .replace(/\\"/g, '"')
+      .replace(/\\0/g, '\0')
+      .replace(/\\\\/g, '\\')
+      .replace(/(^['|"])(.*)\1$/gm, '$2')
+  }
+
   /**
    * Unicode safe b64 encoding
    * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowBase64/Base64_encoding_and_decoding#The_Unicode_Problem
@@ -75,7 +49,7 @@ class common extends utils {
       return btoa(encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g,
         function toSolidBytes (match, p1) {
           // noinspection JSCheckFunctionSignatures
-          return String.fromCharCode('0x' + p1)
+          return String.fromCharCode(`0x${p1}`)
         })
       )
     } else {
@@ -99,21 +73,31 @@ class common extends utils {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Escape special characters using HTML entities
+   * @param {string} str
+   * @returns {string}
+   */
+  static htmlEscape (str) {
+    return entities.encode(str)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Remove HTML entities from string
+   * @param {string} str
+   * @returns {string}
+   */
+  static htmlUnescape (str) {
+    return entities.decode(str)
+  }
+
   /**
    * Remove duplicate items from a list
    * @param {Array} list
    * @returns {Array}
    */
   static uniqueList (list) {
-    let tmp = {}
-    let r = []
-    for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
-      tmp[list[i]] = list[i]
-    }
-    for (let i in tmp) {
-      r.push(tmp[i])
-    }
-    return r
+    return list.filter((v, i, a) => a.indexOf(v) === i)
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/lib/utils/script.js b/lib/utils/script.js
index 5a9ff80..e711b2b 100644
--- a/lib/utils/script.js
+++ b/lib/utils/script.js
@@ -80,36 +80,29 @@ class script extends utils {
   }
 
   static offset (s) {
-    return `(${s} % ${random.range(1, 3)})`
-  }
-
-  static randListIndex (objName) {
-    return `${random.number()} % ${o.pick(objName)}.length`
+    return `(${random.number()} % ${s})`
   }
 
   /**
    * Wrap command(s) in setInterval, setTimeout, loop or run directly
    * @param {string|string[]} cmds - Command(s) to be executed
-   * @returns {string}
+   * @returns {array}
    */
   static runner (cmds) {
     cmds = (Array.isArray(cmds)) ? cmds : [cmds]
     cmds = cmds.filter((i) => i !== undefined)
     if (cmds.length) {
-      if (random.chance(50)) {
-        // Wrap each command in try/catch for use in setInterval, setTimeout, repeater
-        switch (random.number(3)) {
-          case 0:
-            return `setInterval(function () { ${utils.script.safely(cmds)} }, ${random.range(100, 400)} )`
-          case 1:
-            return `setTimeout(function () { ${utils.script.safely(cmds)} }, ${random.range(100, 400)} )`
-          case 2:
-            let n = random.number(random.number(30))
-            return `for (let i = 0; i < ${n}; i++) { ${utils.script.safely(cmds)} }`
-        }
+      // Wrap each command in try/catch for use in setInterval, setTimeout, repeater
+      switch (random.number(50)) {
+        case 0:
+          return [`setInterval(function () { ${script.safely(cmds)} }, ${random.range(100, 400)} )`]
+        case 1:
+          return [`setTimeout(function () { ${script.safely(cmds)} }, ${random.range(100, 400)} )`]
+        case 2:
+          return [`for (let i = 0; i < ${random.number(random.number(30))}; i++) { ${script.safely(cmds)} }`]
+        default:
+          return cmds
       }
-
-      return utils.script.safely(cmds)
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a4e3f0b..c4e4b6d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
     "docs": "esdoc",
     "build": "webpack -p",
     "watch": "webpack --watch",
-    "precommit": "yarn lint",
-    "postinstall": "yarn build",
+    "prepush": "yarn lint",
     "release": "np"
   },
   "standard": {
@@ -80,6 +79,7 @@
     "webpack-cli": "^3.1.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "html-entities": "^1.2.1",
     "jsesc": "^2.5.1"
   }
 }