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In my last post, we explored how to build WASM modules, both with and without WASI support, using Clang. In a comment on Reddit, it was mentioned that much of the setup I walked through in that post could be avoided by just leveraging Zig’s WASI supprt. This is a great point, and I would recommend doing the same. The…
Two-phase commit for humans
Everything was fine until BASIC entered the picture. Edsger Dijkstra in a hallucination of 2023’s AI Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally…
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach t…
About a month ago, I became hooked on mahjong, the ultimate game. It’s a bit late in my life to start, but that’s how it is. In the past, I might have thought, “Playing games like this would be ruinous, leading to personal downfall.” But now, as I’ve grown older, I’ve stopped worrying about these
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
WebGPU is a new standards-compliant API that enables high-performance 3D graphics and general-purpose computations on the Web.
The database zeitgeist has decided that ANSI SQL '92 isn't enough. We need something better.
Dr. Quentin Michaudel and his research team have created a new family of polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance — a major step in the fight against superbugs.
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
Blue Scuti made history, breaking NES Tetris in a way that was previously only theoretical. Here is a glimpse into the what, who, and how.
Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
TL;DR: I think that a focus on memory safe languages (MSLs) versus non memory-safe languages is a bit of a red herring. The actual distinction is slightly…
Tl;DR: to pass SSH through HTTPS you need to tweak client and server sides as the following:
Stop trying to make customElement happen. Do this instead.
A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
Dive into a world where running any WASI and WASIX package in your browser is a breeze. Whether it's Python, Bash, FFmpeg, or [any package published](<h...
arXiv’s goal is equitable access to scientific research for all – and to achieve this, we have been working to make research papers more accessible for arXiv…
Foreign keys are a bit like that well-intentioned friend who insists on double-checking everything you do. They’re often recommended as a must-have for enforcing referential integrity checks in your database.
