The first example with the social network buttons was probably his inspiration, and the variable name is a hold-over. Also, with such a small code base as that

The first example with the social network buttons was probably his inspiration, and the variable name is a hold-over. Also, with such a small code base as that, a minifier like Closure Compiler is pointless. I ran it on http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home with "Advanced" checked: Original Size: 2.13KB (940 bytes gzipped) Compiled Size: 1.28KB (660 bytes gzipped)