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This seems to be a very common misconception that just won’t die. I keep running into it in blog posts, Twitter discussions, and even books. Here’s my attempt at setting things straight. ES6 const does not indicate that a value is ‘constant’ or immutable. —

Mathias Bynens

Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary. We know that code represents effort expended, and we are very motivated to preserve the value of this effort. And, unfortunately, the sad truth is that the more complicated and incomprehensible the code, i.e. the deeper the investment in creating it, the more we feel pressure to retain it —

Sandi Metz

The main thing I noticed about the experts I’ve encountered is they are into impressing you with their abilities. They are usually incredibly good, but their need for recognition gets in the way of mastery. Everything they do is an attempt to prove themselves and in order to do this they must perform like an actor on stage. There’s nothing wrong with this, and I don’t think the expert can become a master without going through this stage in life. At some point though, the expert becomes comfortable with themselves or fed up with impressing everyone and starts to look inward to the core of their art. — Zed A. Shaw

The Master, The Expert, The Programmer

If you ignore the practical issues of computers like size, weight, cost, heat, and so on, what do you really need in a programming language? This blog post is a thought exercise. It’s not something you’d ever use for real code. But just like a guitarist practices scales that she won’t ever play in a song, we programmers should be exercising our brains every so often. — Steve Losh

Webpack is amazing, but hard to configure. —

In this article, I’ll cover how we can use four ECMAScript 6 features – iterables, generators, fat arrows, and for-of – in conjunction with higher-order functions, function composition, and lazy evaluation, to write cleaner and more modular JavaScript. — Mudit Ameta

Interviewing and hiring are more difficult tasks than they may seem. The cost of hiring the wrong person is quite high, yet companies that are hiring often want help sooner rather than later and so sometimes don't want to wait for a good candidate to come along. I operate on the mindset that the damage done by filling a position with a bad fit is far greater than the damage of not having enough people to do work, and so I believe in optimizing to find the right person for the job. — Nicholas C. Zakas

When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. — John D. Cook

This paper is not meant for grading programmers, it was intended to be read by programmers who trust their ability to judge when something is a sign of bad practice, and when it's a consequence of special circumstances. This paper was written to force its author to think, and published because he thinks you lot would probably get a kick out of it, too. —Chris Wenham

Radical Simplicity: revisit your assumptions / biases about any element of your stack that creates complexity. — David Nolen

I once told someone I was an architect. It’s true in a way since I now have to design an intricate web of lies to back it up. On a serious note, I thought it might be salutary to look at the state of application architecture in the JavaScript community as we ebb our way towards 2015. — Addy Osmani

Upgrading your library’s dependencies can be a scary proposition. Not upgrading your library’s dependencies can be even scarier... next-update answers the question: “Is it safe to upgrade my npm module’s dependencies?”