‘Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are.’
1stwebdesigner: 20 snippets you should be using from HTML5 Boilerplate
Sounds stupid and listy but it's actually a good introduction to some of the more useful and practical pieces of the huge insane HTML5 Boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com).
Discussion, in regards to mircoformats and WHATWG , of the value of the "Pareto Principle," which states that 80% of the problems should be solved with 20% of the effort.