Two problems I noticed so far:
1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X)
2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working
Did you happen to resize your browser? I notice that some things get janky because of the waypoints after resize. Need to work on that.
There is some potentially good money in this.
Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels.
[1] https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3At...
Where are you seeing the emails and IP addresses of the commenters?
I learned Node.js by watch some of Pedro Teixeira's screencasts: http://nodetuts.com/
I'm using Express.js as the backend framework and read some tutorials on that. Can't remember which ones.
I learned Backbone.js by reading the docs: http://backbonejs.org/ along with reading source code of projects I was familiar with.
This best practices article came in handy too: http://geeks.bizzabo.com/post/83917692143/7-battle-tested-ba...
For layout design, I tend to sketch my UX ideas on paper. For this site, since it's so minimal, I designed straight in the browser using HTML / CSS (SASS)
