Orinoco, V8’s garbage collector, evolved from a sequential stop-the-world implementation into a mostly parallel and concurrent collector with incremental fallback.

The V8 team announced that they were making some major performance improvements to async/await, including an --async-stack-traces option that will make debugging async functions easier. You can try out these new options with a nightly Node.js build.

Some basic web security advice.

Investigate how async/await are connected to promises through a real world example!

A curious experimental tool to figure out where stuff that’s on the screen comes from in code.

Nicholas walks through the reasons he’s abandoning export default in the new year.