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A Book Nerd's Guide to JavaScriptdotJS 20142014-11-17
Argues that literary techniques produce concrete JavaScript patterns and shows a published experiment called "If Hemingway wrote JavaScript" — 25 authors…
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ES6 UncensoredFull Frontal 20132013-11-08
Compares concrete ES5 solutions with ES6 rewrites: variable swap via destructuring assignment, Math.max with the spread operator, summing args with the rest…
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JavaScript is Literature is JavaScriptJSConf US 20132013-05-28
Talk claims JavaScript can faithfully reproduce authorial voice by rewriting algorithms as prose and code and it actually ships runnable snippets: Fibonacci…
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The Politics of JavaScriptWeb Directions Code 20132013-05-02
Argues that tribalism, fear and automation are shrinking JavaScript practice and offers concrete examples: JSHint breaks a natural-compare by forcing ===…
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Break all the rulesJSConf EU 20122012-10-06
Argues that seemingly forbidden features actually solve real problems and then shows concrete examples: Chrome devtools use the with statement to shadow…
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