Understanding the critical rendering path, rendering pages in 1 second:
Essential reading from Luis Vieira about what’s happening in the browser after those bytes start to stream in. Combine this with Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking and you’re going to be one knowledgeable front-end developer.
My Perception of CoffeeScript Leon Gersing: CoffeeScript sees the world through OO’s eyes. When I see JavaScript, I find beauty in it’s ability to be a dynamically typed Functional programming language. (that’s your TL;DR;, friends.) The post is a few months old now, but I feel like it's still relevant and captures a lot of […]
Making Laws About Making Babies at NYTimes.com (tagged: research politics fertility ) One-Third of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Like Planets In Habitable Zone And (as usual?) the comment thread from pedantic astrophysics nerds is awesome. (tagged: Astronomy Science research ) Innovation Starvation Neal Stephenson (writing at World Policy Institute) on the demise of innovation. Mandatory reading. […]