I often feel like javascript code in general runs much slower than it could, simply because it’s not optimized properly. Here is a summary of common optimization techniques I’ve found useful. Note that the tradeoff for performance is often readability, so the question of when to go for performance versus readability is a question left to the reader. I’ll also note that talking about optimization n
Developers are increasingly relying on AI coding assistants to accelerate our daily workflows. These tools can autocomplete functions, suggest bug fixes, and even generate entire modules or MVPs. Yet, as many of us have learned, the quality of the AI’s output depends largely on the quality of the prompt you provide. In other words, prompt engineering has become an essential skill. A poorly phrased
GitHub - modelcontextprotocol/servers: Model Context Protocol Servers
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With pen and paper, anyone can write a journal entry, draw a diagram, perform a calculation, or sketch a cartoon. Digital tablets like the iPad or reMarkable can adapt pen and paper into the world of digital media. In doing so, they trade away some of paper’s advantages like cheapness and tangibility. In exchange, we get new computational powers like nondestructive editing and ease of transmission
LogLog Games
The article is also available in Chinese. Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games. This isn't meant to brag or indicate su
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.7! If you’re not yet familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript and adds syntax for types. Types help describe what kinds of values you’re working with and what kinds of functions you’re calling. TypeScript can use this information to help you avoid about mistakes like typos, missing arguments, or forgetting
Today we are excited to announce the beta release of TypeScript 4.7! To get started using the beta, you can use npm with the following command: npm install typescript@beta You can also get editor support by Downloading for Visual Studio 2022/2019 Following directions for Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text 3. Here’s a quick list of what’s new in TypeScript 4.7! ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js
31st December 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023. In this article: The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM pri
In this post I’ll walk through the full implementation of a Virtual DOM in a bit over 200 lines of JavaScript. The result is a full-featured and sufficiently performant virtual DOM library (demos). It’s available on NPM as the smvc package. The main goal is to illustrate the fundamental technique behind tools like React. React, Vue and the Elm language all simplify the creation of interactive web
All JavaScript and TypeScript Features of the last 3 years
TypeScript as envisioned by Stable DiffusionThis article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript . Not all of the following features will be relevant to you or even practical, but they should instead serve to show what’s possible and to deepen your understanding of these languages. There are a lot of TypeScript fe
AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation
233 AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation OCTAVE LAROSE, University of Kent, UK SOPHIE KALEBA, University of Kent, UK HUMPHREY BURCHELL, University of Kent, UK STEFAN MARR, University of Kent, UK Thanks to partial evaluation and meta-tracing, it became practical to build language implementations that reach state-of-the-art peak performance by implementing only an interprete
Private Browsing 2.0
Jul 16, 2024 by John Wilander, Charlie Wolfe, Matthew Finkel, Wenson Hsieh, and Keith Holleman When we invented Private Browsing back in 2005, our aim was to provide users with an easy way to keep their browsing private from anyone who shared the same device. We created a mode where users do not leave any local, persistent traces of their browsing. Eventually all other browsers shipped the same fe
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Rust and JavaScript Plugins
Over the past year (2024) there has been a strong movement to rewrite JavaScript tools in Rust to make them faster. Rust is well suited for this as it runs much closer to hardware and doesn't rely on garbage collection. This makes it an ideal candidate for computationally intensive tasks. Linting in its basic form is such a task, as it involves parsing and traversing lots of source code. But there
Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 4.7! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.7, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm install typescript@rc You can also get editor support by Downloading for Visual Studio 2022/2019 Following
Show navigation A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin, Dart, Python, and C# can be ported to Wasm. There are in fact two m
Introduction HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations. To give you a sense of what HTML, the programming langauge, looks like, below is a sample program that prints the values from 1 to 10 to standard out (console.log) A
WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
ContentsHTMLCSSImages and videoJavaScriptWeb APIWeb AppsWebGLPrivacyWeb InspectorFixes for Interop 2023 and moreUpdating to Safari 17.2Feedback Web technology is constantly moving forward, with both big new features and small subtle adjustments. Nowadays, web developers expect web browsers to update multiple times a year, instead of the once or twice a year typical of the late 2000s — or the once
How a simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise
In this case, reallocating the object as one of those three types didn't seem to me like a nice way forward (although it should be possible to exploit this somehow with some effort, e.g. by using count.counter to corrupt the buf field of seq_file). Also, some systems might be using the slab_nomerge kernel command line flag, which disables this merging behavior. Another approach that I didn't look
MAI-Thinking-1: Building a Hill-Climbing Machine The Microsoft AI Team 1 Abstract Progress in AI is driven not by a single model, but by the ability to continually improve upon the current state of models. Achieving this requires treating model development as a system-level optimization problem, for which the solution is building a hill-climbing machine for rapid improvement. Our process includes
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V8’s end-tier optimizing compiler, Turbofan, is famously one of the few large-scale production compilers to use Sea of Nodes (SoN). However, since almost 3 years ago, we’ve started to get rid of Sea of Nodes and fall back to a more traditional Control-Flow Graph (CFG) Intermediate Representation (IR), which we named Turboshaft. By now, the whole JavaScript backend of Turbofan uses Turboshaft inste
Summary Introduce virtual threads to the Java Platform. Virtual threads are lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications. This is a preview API. Goals Enable server applications written in the simple thread-per-request style to scale with near-optimal hardware utilization. Enable existing code that uses the j
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost. In t
Sponsored by: Cursor — Delegate engineering tasks to Cursor Cloud Agents—even while your laptop is closed. Try Cursor & get 50% off your first month 25th May 2025 Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as
V Language Review (2022)
V is a programming language promising to be “Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software.” V has a controversial past but what is the state of V in 2022? Is V worth checking out? In this post, we’ll take a look at V as it exists in May 2022. TLDR Read the summary Rules of engagement I’ll be using the current version of V built from git which is 50ab2cfd1ae02d4f4280f38c60b8db
Comprehensive guide on React re-renders. The guide explains what re-renders are, what a necessary and unnecessary re-render is, what can trigger a React component re-render. Also includes most important patterns that can help prevent re-renders and a few anti-patterns that lead to unnecessary re-renders and poor performance as a result. Every pattern and antipattern is accompanied by a visual aid
Short list of C esoterica
Mini-post: Digraphs and Trigraphs | ENOSUCHBLOG C alternative tokens - Wikipedia Why are there digraphs in C and C++? - Stack Overflow Purpose of Trigraph sequences in C++? A brief description of Normative Addendum 1 Designated initializer # These allow you to specify which elements of an object (array, structure, union) are to be initialized by the values following. The order does not matter! str
8.x バリデーション Laravel
イントロダクションIntroduction Laravelは、アプリケーションの受信データをバリデーションするために複数の異なるアプローチを提供します。すべての受信HTTPリクエストで使用可能なvalidateメソッドを使用するのがもっとも一般的です。しかし、バリデーションに対する他のアプローチについても説明します。Laravel provides several different approaches to validate your application's incoming data. It is most common to use the validate method available on all incoming HTTP requests. However, we will discuss other approaches to validation as well
Introduction: Density Is King (With a Tiny VM) I've previously come to the conclusion that there's little reason for using bytecode in the modern world, except in order to get more compact code, for which it can be very effective. So, what kind of a bytecode engine will give you more compact code? Suppose I want a bytecode interpreter for a very small programming environment, specifically to minim
Part of my job is to make JavaScript things go fast. Speed is a feature, and when working in an interpreted language, squeezing every last bit of performance can be the difference between a great product and unusable garbage. Anyway, how cool would it be to make JavaScript itself go faster? I’m not a C++ programmer, but that didn’t stop me before, so I thought I’d give it a try anyway! The objecti
The simplicity of Prolog
Back to homepage Nowadays the most popular programming languages are Python, Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin and Ruby, and the average programmer is probably familiar with one or more of these languages. It's relatively easy to switch from one to another (barring any framework specific knowledge that may be needed), since they are all imperative (and for the most part object-oriented) languages,
The Humble For Loop in JavaScript By Martijn Faassen • 2024-12-11 • Tags: programming, javascript I've seen some programmers try to avoid the humble for loop at all costs, in favor of more functional abstractions. I'm going to argue that the for loop is sometimes simply the best option. That doesn't mean you should always use it -- far from it -- but it does mean you should give it due considerati
This post is part of my Byte Series, where I document tips, tricks, and tools that I've found useful. ProblemWhen building a localized JavaScript web-app, the default sorting logic for strings doesn't quite yield the results that you might expect. For example, take the following example… let strings = [ "nop", "NOP", "ñop", "abc", "abc", "äbc" ]; strings.sort(); console.log(strings); // ['NOP', 'a
Why hooks are the best thing to happen to React - Stack Overflow
React is the most popular front-end framework in the JavaScript ecosystem. It is famous for its ease of use and its readability, allowing companies and startups to adopt it. But classes can be unwieldy and hard to understand. Hooks allow you to use state, lifecycle methods, and other functionalities of React without using classes. This article will explain what hooks are, what makes them unique, a
Bullshit Jobs
Notes: ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many identifying characteristics have been changed.; Interior design by Carly Loman; Jacket design by David L Itman To anyone who would rather be doing something useful with themselves. Preface: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation. It all be
The joy of recursion, immutable data, and pure functions: Generating mazes with JavaScript
This post is based on a talk I presented at Web Directions Summit, 2024. Let's start by addressing the elephant in the room. Why the heck am I talking about making mazes? Normally, I try to be practical when I'm writing or speaking. I want to give people tools they can use to make their coding lives better. So, I try to discuss things like creating DOM elements and processing JSON data. Because th
WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter
WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter Published on June 28th, 2026 Background This text assumes the reader is familiar with the concept of just-in-time compilation. Dolphin isn’t on iOS, because you can’t do JIT compilation on iOS. That’s a quick summary of OatmealDome’s blog post “Why Dolphin Isn’t Coming to the App Store”. Ever since reading that, I’ve wondere
GitHub - ComfyUI-Workflow/awesome-comfyui: A collection of awesome custom nodes for ComfyUI
ComfyUI-Gemini_Flash_2.0_Exp (⭐+172): A ComfyUI custom node that integrates Google's Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental model, enabling multimodal analysis of text, images, video frames, and audio directly within ComfyUI workflows. ComfyUI-ACE_Plus (⭐+115): Custom nodes for various visual generation and editing tasks using ACE_Plus FFT Model. ComfyUI-Manager (⭐+113): ComfyUI-Manager itself is also a cu
React's core architecture calls the functions you give it (i.e. your components) over and over. This fact both contributed to its popularity by simplifying its mental model, and created a point of possible performance issues. In general, if your functions do expensive things, then your app will be slow. Performance tuning, therefore, became a pain point for devs, as they had to manually tell React
I’m excited to release jax-js, a machine learning library for the web. You can think of it as a reimplementation of Google DeepMind’s JAX framework (similar to PyTorch) in pure JavaScript. jax-js runs completely in the browser by generating fast WebGPU and Wasm kernels. Numerical computing on the webStarting in February this year, I spent nights and weekends working on a new ML library for the bro
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