Tasty Links #5

Over the past few weeks, I've come across some fascinating articles and videos, so I thought I'd share them with you. Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and enjoy!

• Perhaps we won't be writing pure JavaScript for much longer.
• Get a full fake REST API with zero coding using JSON Server.
• Some pure ECMAScript 2015 functions for more idiomatic functional JavaScript.
• The engineers at GitHub have started blogging about their development practices.
• Learn a modern command line workflow with the Command Line Power User series.
• In Unorthodox Performance, John-David Dalton talks about JavaScript optimizations.
• A brilliant quine: this Ruby program emits itself through 100 languages.
• Watch Elijah Manor's talk at FluentConf about eliminating JavaScript code smells.
• Web Typography lists resources for building beautiful websites using Web Fonts.
• When you're totally stressed out, syncing to paper might help.
• For a provocative read, learn why you should never use MongoDB.
• Watch the Computational Complexity Zoo, a great explanation of P vs. NP.
• I'm sensing a theme with Elon Musk: how Tesla will change the world.
• Somebody plotted the Paris Metro lines using a Git graph. Because why not?
• The javascript.com website might be a good beginner's guide to JavaScript.
• And then there's bling.js. Because you want the $ of jQuery without the jQuery.
• The ECMAScript 2015 language specification was finalized in June!
• Generate collision-resistant ids optimized for scaling using cuid.
• Here's the fundamental theorem of agile software development in 7min, 26sec.
• Paul Irish has been doing a performance audit of Reddit's new mobile website.