A showcase of awesome JavaScript that pushes the boundaries of what's possible on the web, by @devongovett.

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I wrote a blog post about why the recent anti-best-practices stance in the JavaScript community makes me sad: tomdale.net/2012/04/best-pra…
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The JSConf 2012 videos are being released! Check them out if you missed the event: badassjs.com/post/2178734991…
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A super in depth look at every single feature of the WebKit inspector by @jtaby. A must read for all web developers. jtaby.com/2012/04/23/modern-…
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idb.filesystem.js is a polyfill for the HTML5 filesystem API. Nice! ericbidelman.tumblr.com/post…
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Whoa, Safari 5.2 beta 3 has a TOTALLY redesigned version of the dev tools... reminds me of Xcode a bit. cl.ly/Fyzq
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Looks like Firefox on Linux now supports H.264, MP3, and anything else you can install a GStreamer plugin for: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
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Looks like BlobBuilder will be removed in favor of an actual Blob constructor in browsers soon. Update your code! Spec: dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileA…
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Brendan Eich on the 'Infernal Semicolon': brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-…
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Creator of JS says semi-colons are required, it just tries to guess what you meant if you forgot them. Can we please just use semi-colons?
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winner of js1k js1k.com/2012-love/demo/1243 GORGEOUS!!!! #jsconf
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To everyone who fell for our April Fools article yesterday, we're sorry! Back to regularly scheduled programming...
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@badass_js Translating by hand makes tons of work tracking the upstream. Anyone know whether/why Emscripten wasn't used? cc'ing @kripken
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WebKit.js: Yes it has finally happened! Browser Inception is now possible. goo.gl/fb/CBltH
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Lots of interesting stuff coming to the canvas API including path primitives, text on a path, hit testing, and more: lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/w…
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Nice! Safari 5.2 seems to have the Web Audio API, meaning that alac.js and aac.js work! Also: FileReader and Blob URLs! WOOOOOOO!!! FINALLY!
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If you're in the Geneva area and want to come say hi, stop by Fondue.js tonight and meet the @ofmlabs team! thebootstrap.ch/events/9
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SourceMaps in Chrome. This blows me away! Makes #coffeescript a highly viable development choice. youtube.com/watch?v=-xJl22Kv… #ct
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We are happy to announce the JSConf US 2012 schedule of events: 2012.jsconf.us/#/schedule
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@badass_js Saw your recent post about sql.js, thought you might like to see how I'm using it: sqlfiddle.com/#!5/781d4/2
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