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If you're like me and you like the sound of white noise more than rain, you can relax to this http://wookiehangover.github.com/whitenoise/

Since when is having a page work without JavaScript "something special"? Good to know that "graceful degradation" is impossible if you use jQuery or Prototype... IMO if you're not …

phew, at least the empty TOS has a real TOS linked at the bottom.

+1 for Ask Jeeves reference

also, who needs unit tests?

sweet, user agent sniffing and no deferreds for ajax calls. I'm in.

a positive PHP post is on the front page of Hacker News. ergo, Hacker News has officially jumped the shark.

just ported jshint into the jslint.vim plugin, for vim addicts that write javascript :) https://github.com/wookiehangover/jshint.vim

this is really just a wrapper .keypress() with the char codes mapped... so to bind an event handler to a single keypress, you're adding 3kb of js for something jQuery already provi…

worrying about the end of unix time ;)

you know what I trust? a javascript tutorial that contains no javascript or styling. also, double plus true on the "property maps" thing.

still ugly.

http://html5test.com/ has a good breakdown for each browser and a score that's actually explained http://html5readiness.com/ has a great feature comparison chart with a unique pres…

great explanation of how subclassing works in 1.5! now you can extend / overwrite jQuery in extreme isolation without polluting its global namespace.

adding some good starting points: http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/#... https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaS…

from the creator of the ExpressJS ( http://expressjs.com/ ) framework for node

This looks pretty swell. I'm a fan of the UI improvements. I also use a chrome plugin to inject some styling and other fun features to HN. It's on github at https://github.com/wook…

Downvote this if you hate writing unit tests for code you release publicly.

Enterprise JS is 400 lines of code... 0 lines of tests. Kudos, NYT.

adding position:relative without knowing what it does... great advice