Freak out Refresher on exception handling in JavaScript, and for good measure, error handling in CSS:

When the browser encounters something in a CSS file that it doesn’t understand, it does a very minimal freak-out, then continues on as soon as it can as if nothing bad had happened.

Adequate Wonderful talk on how to build great JavaScript APIs. Watch it, and you too can become Captain of Adequately Reusable JavaScript!

Coderot Why our code smells and what to do about it. How can you say no to a presentation that investigates code smells through its tests:

Tests tell us if an object is doing too much, not enough, or the wrong thing.

Reading list 5 stars and two glowing recommendations from my Twitter feed for “The Tangled Web“, a book on web and browser security. Adding to my must read list.

Can’t fail McSweeny’s nails it with Prospectus for Silicon Valley’s next hot tech IPO, where nothing could possibly go wrong:

Our primary measurement of revenue is a non-GAAP accounting principle known as Adjusted Consolidated Assumed Income (ACAI).

QotD Wynn Netherland:

Know what’s better than filing an issue? A pull request. Know what’s better than a pull request? A pull request with tests.