I recently wrote a pseudo-post as a GitHub readme, mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to turn it into a real blog post. It had a nice side effect, though, which was that I got a pull request correcting some errata. It’s kinda neat to get a pull request on a blog post.
For the sake of completeness, though, I’m re-blogging it here. Here’s a link:
The state of binary data in the browser, or: “So you wanna store a Blob, huh?”
Read the Tea Leaves 