A collection of nice Backbone extensions that provide additional functionality or structure to your BB projects.

A fantastically exhaustive set of test data to measure the integrity of your plugins and themes.

What if we got together a bunch of experts who work on large sites to create a definitive front-end performance guide?

CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

Best Urban Explorers and Place Hacking Stories – GQ March 2013: Newsmakers: GQ

Background coffee-shop noise.

Current list of WordPress plugins that are either essential or recommended by curators the NASA GRC WordPress theme(s).

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can differentiate between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs trying to navigate into a submenu’s contents.

Townies is a series about life in New York, and occasionally other cities.

IFTTT: For your Wednesday reading pleasure, here’s a fascinating @WIRED post about the future of work & the quantified self: http://t.co/Gxmup7Qilf

Mike_FTW: 10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down http://t.co/Rpjq5bqfcJ via @motherjones

BK-based outdoor adventure company. Offers “lightweight” outdoor stuff, some basic survival classes, etc.

Inspired by twitter.com’s autocomplete search functionality, typeahead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library.

dropzone.js is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews

Grunt allows you to automate all sorts of things in your JS workflow (minification, linting etc).

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP webapplications.

Open Web Application Security Project. A community which openly trades ideas and techniques to ensure web applications are built securely.

Simple bootstrap from Twitter with Microsoft’s Metro style.

The main elements required to make an in-page dialog more accessible, including a neat tabindex trick.

Peer-to-peer data in the web browser.

Using WebKit’s Inspector (and Profiler) to find memory leaks in Javascript applications.

PHP ICO provides an easy-to-use PHP class that can be used to generate valid ICO files. Note that these are not simply BMP, GIF, or PNG formatted images with an extension of ico, the images generated by this class are fully valid …

jSlate is a blank slate where you can track and visualize anything you want, in any way you want.

Dashku lets you build real-time dashboards and widgets using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.

A javascript framework for building ambitious web applications.

From Campaign Monitor. HTML Emails are horrible, as evidenced by all the horrible things going on in this excellent guide.

Actually pretty amazing collection of stuff to help with cross-browser testing. Includes VirtualBox VMs for IE6+

Onto a folding table came a breathtaking array of disaster swag: compasses and iodine pills, hand-cranked radios and solar-powered flashlights, magnesium fire-starters and a fully charged Kindle with digital road maps of the tristate …

MacManXcom: Author Warren Ellis talks about science fiction, reality, the future, and imagination: http://t.co/XmxE0CfU

ara_p: ‘IT’S NOT WORTH IT’: Ad Exec’s Brutal Rant Before He Died Of Cancer Is Absolutely Chilling http://t.co/p0EuoY2o via @BI_Advertising