Ripping Blu-Ray Disc (BD) to Apple TV 2 is trickier than with DVDs and as a newcomer I thought I would document what I have learned.

Gist driven side-debate (also on Twitter) with Isaac of Node and Brendan of Javascript, about unicode escaping/encoding issues and the prospect of full VM-level support (fixing String.length, substring etc)

The most commonly recommended (and decent) intro to unicode for programmers.

JSON text uses UTF-16 escapes.

JSON default encoding is UTF8.

More generally: how to escape UTF-16 characters (including surrogate pairs) in JSON.stringified javascript data.

Interesting one-paragraph overview of techniques that could be used to improve JPEG--without even improving the format.

Unicode for dummies: Encoding