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CSON is an interesting alternative to JSON, using coffeescript. Comments! https://github.com/bevry/cson (especially if you're already using cs)

It's remarkable that the JS output by emscripten has comparable file size to native code! http://t.co/hzGLFOxJjb

Do programs increase in entropy over time? I suspect so, but how can we measure that?

No Sane Compiler Would Optimize Atomics https://github.com/jfbastien/papers/blob/master/source/N4455.rst [cue evil laugh]

LLVM's libfuzzer is catching both interesting bugs and issues like exponential performance! Nifty. http://t.co/OYJyVrBek2

The React team is moving from Gulp to Broccoli: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZxArgMwidgCrAbuSikcB2iBxkffH6w0YB0C1qCsuH0/preview?pli=1&sle=true -- the JS ecosystem moves so fast! (I'm still on Grunt.)

Devops Reactions beautifully summarising yak shaving: http://t.co/a0d6wwYB7o

I ported a project today from npm+bower to entirely npm. It works really well! Bower fetches from VCS, but npm has 'proper' file uploads.

I'm biting the bullet and moving to jQuery 2 for some projects. I feel a vague sense of guilt.

A Synthetic Theory Of Monitoring: http://t.co/omCnqcfQqd Effectively choosing, collecting and viewing the right metrics is hard.

Wow! It's now possible to syntax highlight in vim by running your code through clang!

I like Backbone. There are tons of great online resources and if you're unsure, it doesn't take long to read the relevant source code.

TOML is growing on me. YAML is complex and JSON lacks comments, but TOML feels like it hits a sweet spot.

"Open source is a software development model that enables the community to build what one person cannot." http://t.co/2QTIMoHL2x

Rust 1.0-beta has a really interesting approach to integer overflow checks, default enabling them for debug builds: