Trip NetFlix shares their secret (spoiler: the circuit breaker) for making API access more resilient.

By example Mandatory read for managers: How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead.

Wise up Whether you’re looking for excuse to avoid CoffeeScript, or what features to avoid when using CoffeeScript wisely, make sure to read A Case Against Using CoffeeScript. It helps to remember that programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute, and some of the syntax CoffeeScript accepts is just bad practice.

Snobbish Chrome extension Snob hides YouTube-quality comments by filtering for all caps, no caps, spelling errors, excessive punctuations, etc.

Check out How far we’ve come: Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control.

QotD Chris Coyier:

Static site generators are the fixed gear bicycles of the internet.