I suspect Require.js is treating the symptom. The root cause: over-reliance on adding JS libraries in hopes they’ll do the hard work for you

tracegl is one of the best JavaScript (server & client side debug tools I’ve come across)  http://remysharp.com/2013/05/13/tracegl-for-javascript-debugging/ … (video of my debug process)

In 18 minutes, you'll learn 3 new DevTools features: support for Sass stylesheets, editing local projects, snippets:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kVSo4buDAEE …

I wrote a Grunt plugin for compressing files using Zopfli.  http://git.io/grunt-zopfli  In your face, `gzip`!

A favorite bit of my dotfiles, `cd` into whatever folder Finder has open  https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/commit/e67d1bc03 … (it complements `open .` nicely)

Dozens have asked me for more detail into how I write unit tests for JavaScript. Today’s the day! 75-minute live demo  http://searls.testdouble.com/posts/2013-03-21-jasmine-tactics-screencast.html …

Huge @linemanjs news! You can now deploy to heroku, have your site generated, and then served up with apache. Wow.  https://github.com/testdouble/lineman#heroku …

SimCity's UI is completely written in JavaScript running on V8 & WebKit:  https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984 …  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359143 

Speaking of Chicago being on Github, so is Philly (@phillycdo)! Upvote and tell us if your city is on GitHub  http://bit.ly/WC5tJw 

Announcing Grunt 0.4 - read about the new developments from @tkellen on  http://bocoup.com :  http://weblog.bocoup.com/tearing-grunt-apart/ …

This must be a journalists worst nightmare -  http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive …

Data doesn't lie as much as people do.

An interactive guide to @npmjs’s `package.json`:  http://package.json.nodejitsu.com/ 

Pushed a big update to @linemanjs, which now includes both server-side proxying and custom endpoints!  https://github.com/testdouble/lineman#server-side-apis …

@dmosher “and if you’ve been using @linemanjs enough to hit that limit, we want to talk with you!”

Computer animation. From 1938. And not done on a computer. Wish I'd known about this as a kid.  https://vimeo.com/43103220  /via @thekidshouldsee

Two big things are moving off the main thread. HTML parsing ( http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/023271.html …) and Painting ( http://crbug.com/155209 ). More speed for all!