In which I explore their similarities (while you remain skeptical)

I finished 24 novels in 2019 (slow reader) and gave up on another two. Here they are in descending buckets of goodness.

(† = short story collection, ‡ = novella, + = re-read, * = didn’t finish)

Unputdownable / Utterly Brilliant

with apologies to Leonard Cohen

Update 1: Now available in audio courtesy of the brilliant Shawn Wang
Update 2: This is now the official song of Babel.js!

The Zen of Dependency-Free Modules.

See also: Just vs Lodash Tradeoffs

Just is a library of zero dependency npm modules that do just one thing.

A Visit from St. Nicholas is a poem written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1823. You might know it from the opening line: “Twas the Night before Christmas”. Anyway, it’s pretty bad. The meter is awkward and the sentiment cheesy.