Pretty funny, but I've been working on this post about the same thing for the Wright Brothers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291316. Great minds think alike. Maybe if we could put some guns on a plane...
Came here to paste a link to the good parts. I see you've already got that.
Honestly, the most useful reading for me has been the annotated source to Backbone and Underscore. Amazing that he wrote it, even more amazing that he annotated it. Guy's a genius.
Actually, surprisingly good for our our marketer/designer to quickly mock up small changes to our landing page. We wouldn't share it publicly, but for internal use kinda neat.