What the Heck is the Event Loop Anyway?
A visual, almost-cartoon walkthrough of how JavaScript actually schedules work — and the talk that taught a generation of frontend devs how their runtime really behaves.

A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly
Lin Clark explains what WebAssembly actually is, why it is fast, and what it means for the browser as a runtime — in her signature illustrated style.

10 Things I Regret About Node.js
Ryan Dahl revisits the design decisions he wishes he could undo in Node — and uses the postmortem to introduce Deno.

Minimal API Surface Area
Sebastian Markbåge argues that great libraries shrink — they teach you patterns instead of adding APIs, and they hand functionality back to the language whenever they can.

In The Loop
Jake Archibald walks through the browser event loop — tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, and the surprising ways the runtime interleaves your work with rendering.

JavaScript: The Good Parts
Crockford's walkthrough of the language — its good parts, its bad parts, and the historical accidents that produced both.

Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Harris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.