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2023
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State of HTML 2023 now open

While the survey will be open for 3 weeks, responses entered within the first 9 days (until October 1st) will have a much higher impact on the Web, as preliminary data will be used to inform Interop 2024 proposals.

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WinterJS

> Follow up the WinterJS series reading about the recent production-ready WinterJS 1.0 release [here](<https://wasmer.io/posts/winterjs-v1>). Today we ...

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My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

Back around the time I convinced my family to switch from a 56 kb/s dial-up modem to ADSL, the website milliondollarhomepage.com was launched, and quickly became an Internet phenomenon, selling pixels for advertising space on a 1000x1000 canvas. 18 years later, the homepage is still standing, proudly displaying the…

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Building a Signal Analyzer with Modern Web Tech

An overview of the design of a signal analyzer module for a browser-based digital audio workstation built with modern web tech. The post goes over the specific web tech used (things like SharedArrayBuffer, OffscreenCanvas, WebAssembly, etc.) as well as the code design patterns used to build the interactive…

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I think I kind of hate lazy loading

Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and my browser loaded a long article for me to read. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal. That meant I couldn't see the images on the other half of the page for the rest of the journey. I had a sea of broken images. Even though the…

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Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript

By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it's with great pleasure that I can…

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The XML spec is 25 years old today

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML…