javascript

The folks at V8 wrote a post bragging that their Javascript interpreter has almost caught up with front-end JS frameworks while sheepishly, begrudgingly admitting that, on the sorts of devices normal people actually access the internet with, resume-friendly JS feels like sucking cement through a straw. Unrelated to any of that is the hidden gem that it's faster to parse JSON than access a JS object.
I didn't write about the Jeremy Renner app because how can you improve on perfection? After the dust settled, though, one of the good folks at Uproxx wrote a very good fancy think piece about it.
In all her wisdom, Madcatlady has weighed in on the Game of Thrones controversies.
Ancient Clickhole of the week: Powerful: A Barrel Maker Is Confronted By People Whose Lives Were Ruined By His Poorly Crafted Barrels.
Oo, Indonesia
Call out culture isn't new: How a 1991 billionaire lost a $10 Billion business in ten seconds.

A new client and a bad cold killed off Weekly Links for a couple weeks, but not its unconquerable soul. Pachelbel's Chicken.
Sauron's Eye Dwitter.
"This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine."
Intentional and/or unintentional comedy gold mine: The Star Trek wiki has a page for breasts. It explains breast feeding and provides several episodes as citations.
The Public Domain Review has an article about what 'x' is for. It's a shame that their site is almost impossible to navigate, because they publish some incredible stuff.
I'm a bit late to the game, but someone made an incredible Apollo 11 webapp to commemorate the recent 50th anniversary.

The weirdest Javascript syntax. Javascript is so many things to so many people.
Another visualization of sorting methods, but this one is meant to be artsy, rather than educational.
Beautiful sculpture garden in Finland (pictured).
When I was young, I somehow ended up with a copy of a video game which was not fun to play, at all, but which was extremely stylish and had this incredible song, which is still an earworm for me to this day.
Why OO sucks - another article by the late, great Joe Armstrong.
Youtube bot existential horror story.

I completely forgot about Slashdot, which used to be a huge deal. It still exists, and gets a fair number of comments. Here's a new article about Clippy.
Hit the Wikipedia random button, got a neato demon. Tried to find more demons, very disappointed.
Suburb full of castles
One of Jim Henson and Frank Oz's early works as The La Choy Dragon.
800 million emails hacked and leaked online. What a crappy company.
Remember Perl golf? That'll seem like nothing compared the surface of the sun animation written in a 140 lines of Javascript.

Visual Noise
Oldie but goodie: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. Classic programmer humour which is unbelievably just shy of ten years old.
A fun article on Lewis Carroll's What the tortoise said to Achilles. If you haven't, here is the original, which is wonderful.
Beautiful hot-air balloon simulator in the browser, using Three.js. The new golden age <canvass> was supposed to bring us.
Overly-broad Internet laws in many countries can result in you unknowingly committing crimes. If doing stuff is outlawed, only outlaws will do stuff.
JWZ's long-running blog is the pinnacle of programmer coolness. It's so cool that it can't be linked from Hacker News. Mosaic's home page from 1994 is still around and it feature's JWZ's original, 90s-style homepage and it is a thing of glory. Back in the 90s, mentioning Kennedy was 4% of the United States GDP.

The Longest Shower
Don't put dotfiles in the home directory, please. This comes up once in a while, but everyone ignores it. I saw a proposal once to put them all in a folder like '.config', but humanity is to corrupt for something that beautiful to happen.
Everyone loves visualizing algorithms. Here are a bunch that aren't just the usual sort algorithms
Relics are wacky. Interesting text on the votive crown of St. Oswald at Hildesheim.
"Dwitter.net is a challenge to see what awesomeness you can create when limited to only 140 characters of javascript and a canvas". Extra points for having a random button.
I've never seen it, but look at this trailer for a movie from 1936. The leading actress is the social worker from Beetlejuice.