Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
OpenAI Five Benchmark
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JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
Recently we’ve seen how WebAssembly is incredibly fast to compile, speeding up JS libraries, and generating even smaller binaries. We’ve even got a high-level plan for better interoperability between the ...
Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant
The team at Paris-based Snips has created a voice assistant that can be embedded in a single device or used in a home network to control lights, thermostat
How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance
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I simulated California housing and learned about simulators
Back in the early 2000s, XML was all the rage. An unusual evolution from HTML, which itself was an evolution (devolution?) from SGML, XML w...
Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS
Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS!
Problems with infinite scroll
Infinite scroll may be disorienting, difficult to control, and stressful for some users, so you may want to consider these alternative options.
Understanding Quaternions
Quaternions are used to represent an orientation in 3D space. This article attempts to demystify the complexities of quaternions.
It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]
Sam Chaudhary [https://twitter.com/samchaudhary_] is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo [https://www.classdojo.com/]. They’ve raised $30M and have 30 employees. Karen Lien [https://twitter.com/karenlien03] is an Edtech Principal here at YC…
Glow: Better Reversible Generative Models
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How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, runtime and call stack (2017)
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How to sleep a million years (2013)
Let me assure you, the "fluxcapacitor" project is very interesting. Unfortunately, I find it very difficult to describe what it does. For this project I completely fail the elevator pitch .
Advanced web security topics
(Updated 22 May 2020) This post discusses web security issues that I come across – so far thankfully mostly by reading about them. It is a work in progress which I’ll keep updating. The…
Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme
The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a new scam involving the temporary theft of chip-based debit cards issued to large corporations. In this scheme, the fraudsters intercept new debit cards in the mail and replace the chips on the cards with chips from old cards. When the unsuspecting…
Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads
Emacs 26.1 was recently released . As you would expect from a major release, it comes with lots of new goodies. Being a bit of an Emacs Lisp enthusiast , the two most interesting new features are generators ( iter ) and native threads ( thread ).
What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?
Bufferbloat is high latency (or lag) that occurs when there’s other traffic on your network. This means that your network isn’t always responsive - it’s wasting your time.
Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter
sqlfmt is an opinionated SQL formatter. It’s not designed to be completely customizable, and we hope to remove options over time. Use it and stop thinking about how to format SQL.
The Bitter Truth of Learning: It’s Tough, Unpleasant, and Often Pointless
Sometimes an insignificant interaction, or an excerpt from a book, is capable of provoking a life-changing insight. It might be an obvious lesson, but it feels epiphanic because it fits differently into my understanding of things. For instance…