Tasty Links #3

The past weeks, I came across some fascinating articles and videos, so I thought I'd share those with you. Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and enjoy!

• What if programming language were Harry Potter characters?
• Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal.
• Here's a neat little trick to detect whether JavaScript code has been minified.
• The JavaScript framework environment is quite unstable. A plausible explanation.
• Listen to Scott Wlaschin give a talk on railway-oriented programming.
• Intimidated by monads? Here's an excellent explanation of monads in pictures.
• Christian Heilmann talks about advancing JavaScript without breaking the web.
• Google's V8 team experiments with strengthening JavaScript through stricter modes.
• The C# language team discussed possible non-nullable reference types in C# 7.
• A fascinating visualization about how small planet earth really is.
• Jeff Handley, former dev lead for NuGet, blogs about passions and leaving Microsoft.
• Like it or not, JavaScript is on its way to world domination.
• If you're developing a product, you should consider choosing boring technology.
• Version 5.0.0 of the increasingly popular Babel transpiler has been released.
• Check out Textures.js for data visualizations using SVG patterns.
• StackOverflow surveyed more than 25,000 developers and published the results.
• Are you well versed in security and know how to safely store a password?
• John Resig annotates the original jQuery source code. Very interesting!