Mathias Bynens

Section on whitespace?

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Is it worth adding a section on whitespace? One example that comes to mind is the infamous U+180E (https://github.com/mathiasbynens/regexpu-core/commit/9b10d2a597d4e56b236cae0f9aa2f21a9c6d1122), which used to be an ECMAScript whitespace character but no longer...

Better way to set default keyboard?

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This is for OS X 10.8, but it might just work for 10.9 as well: https://github.com/hjuutilainen/dotfiles/blob/9198bacc8e8ea63bf441a3e313a93a2159037a34/bin/osx-system-defaults.sh#L84-L96 ``` bash # ============================================== # Set keyboard preferences # ============================================== defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID...

Add/remap these: - irony mark (`⸮`) - ditto mark (`〃`) - ratio (`∶`) and proportion (`∷`), e.g. foo ∶ bar ∷ baz ∶ qux - Make `⌥` + `A` →...

Add WOFF2 and TTF versions of the font

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The WOFF2 version is smaller, and works in Chrome and Opera. The TTF version is useful to convert the font to other formats (most tools accept only TTF as input).

Since this pattern is used in both `prevCousins` and `prevNieces`, it might be worthwhile to give it its own method. Something like: ``` js $.fn.closestChildren = function() { return this.map(...

`gh issues open` displays the number of votes for each issue. Consider not displaying the vote count as there’s no way to do it in the GitHub Issues UI anymore.

Should the optimizer avoid rewriting to `\W`?

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See . Per ES6, `/\W/iu` was equivalent to `/[^0-9a-jl-rt-zA-JL-RT-Z_]/u`, and [engines implemented it that way](https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/525#issuecomment-228016109). This was fixed in the spec in [June 2016](https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/525#issuecomment-228016109). Now, `/\W/iu` is equivalent to `/[^0-9a-zA-Z_\u{017F}\u{212A}]/u`....

Unreliable test results

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If you mean to run this benchmark across different browsers, you should know there might be some problems with the time measurement technique you’re using. Read http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/bulletproof-javascript-benchmarks/ for a detailed...

Remove `require('sys')`

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It was not being used (WTF) and in modern versions of Node it resulted in the following warning: > The `sys` module is now called `util`. It should have a...