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by esprehn 11d ago
The implementation of the Web APIs look very broken and incomplete: https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura/blob/main/crates/obsc... This might be faster in some benchmarks, but it's not really
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by esprehn 21d ago
Larry designed the algorithm and Brin implemented it. Not so different than what we saw with transformers and LLMs. The people who came up wit the ideas and the algorithms were joined by others who implemented them. Together they made it al
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by esprehn 27d ago
You can animate it now. There's no default though which is a bit annoying. I wish we had made it animate open/closed smoothly. https://austingil.com/animating-details-element-with-only-cs... https://dev
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by esprehn 27d ago
Script attributes are very often disabled for security reasons. The declarative actions API is currently only used for popover, but it's been discussed for over a decade to allow SSR of rich content that's interactive before scrip
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by esprehn 27d ago
As opposed to what? Not sure what the alternative you're picturing is.
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by esprehn 1mo ago
There were a lot of factors that led to the dart decision. It's also important to note that Flutter is very old, we were designing it in 2014. - we wanted hot reload - it was supposed to feel familiar to web developers and reasonable t
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by esprehn 1mo ago
The frustration with the Gmail triager is typical unfortunately. Google teams have outsourced almost all user issue triage to contractors and the actual engineers don't interact with the community or users. Hopefully some Googler sees
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by esprehn 1mo ago
Airbnb has a version of this internally that was pretty awesome called Evergreen, based on the Uber paper as well. I wish more companies would open source their monorepo infra. A well done monorepo is a huge force multiplier on a large orga
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by esprehn 2mo ago
Servo is 14 years old, it's hardly a new project. Ladybird has come much farther in a shorter amount of time. The issue has always been Mozilla not being focused.
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by esprehn 2mo ago
Not supporting comments will be a mistake that haunts this API. They give an example of replacing properties files but those do have standardized comments! The proposed pre-processing step means all the comments are lost during round trippi
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by esprehn 2mo ago
GKE uses spanner (with an etcd API layer) per the docs. https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concept... https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
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by esprehn 2mo ago
GitHub and LinkedIn both appear to be pretty successful businesses.
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by esprehn 2mo ago
Is Xbox really worse than Play-Station? It's a pretty good name actually because it's unique, easy to Google, and is never ambiguous in conversation. It's all the suffixes that made a mess of it.
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by esprehn 3mo ago
Yahoo. They very nearly bought Google too, but refused the initial $1m offer and then bid too low the second time. Kind of hilarious to see how that played out over time. Yahoo had two failed attempts to acquire Google; in 1998, Larry P
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by esprehn 3mo ago
The good part about a language runtime is there's a massive corpus of tests that are in that language and agnostic to the implementation language. For a JS engine that's Test 262: https://github.com/tc39/test2
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by esprehn 3mo ago
Apple was doing effectively everything on that list, though the self driving car was cancelled and the AI is now gemini.
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by esprehn 3mo ago
Is the simpler thing not Lambda/Cloud Run (with terraform)? On the application developer side k8s is awesome fo, but the you look inside the box and it melts your face off. I'm not sure a middle ground exists unfortunately. It&#x2
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by esprehn 3mo ago
I assume they meant the Attention process in LLMs, not the human concept of paying attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_(machine_learning)
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by esprehn 5mo ago
One big difference seems to be Mastra has tests and this project doesn't.
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by esprehn 5mo ago
It also can't inherit css variables which is unfortunate since it means the image doesn't respect the theme.
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by esprehn 5mo ago
They totally could sanitize it, just like they did with the gadget proxy, they just choose not to fix this ancient request. It's like my ticket to add data url support to sheets. It just gets punted year after year.
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by esprehn 5mo ago
There's a whole movie about a snail that's super fast (Turbo). An adult version of that isn't so far fetched.
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by esprehn 5mo ago
Yes, I was around during the original discussions. AbortSignal exists because TC39 was taking too long and cancelling fetch() is table stakes for a networking oriented platform like the web. Those threads are a good example of what's w
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by esprehn 5mo ago
I just can't help but imagine those long lived rats escaping and taking over our cities. We already struggle with the rat population and they only live 3 years, imagine if they lived 15. Also I love rats and totally agree they're
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by esprehn 5mo ago
AbortSignal is same thing on the Web. It's unfortunate TC39 failed to ever bring a CancelToken to the language to standardize the pattern outside browsers.
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by esprehn 6mo ago
The proposal already exists [1], but vendors would need to agree to both prioritize and ship it. Right now Chrome is much more focused on AI related APIs (sigh) and not stuff like FontMetrics. [1] https://drafts.css-houdini.org&#
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by esprehn 6mo ago
The FontMetrics API solves this, hopefully browsers will ship it someday. https://drafts.css-houdini.org/font-metrics-api-1/ RIP eae@.
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by esprehn 6mo ago
It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on location tracking without consent.
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by esprehn 6mo ago
This is very cool, but I'm confused why the React player is smaller than the HTML player. What's actually in the size comparison there?
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by esprehn 6mo ago
The worker situation would be much better with inline workers (or modules). https://github.com/tc39/proposal-module-declarations Unfortunately the JS standards folks have refused so far to make this situation better. E

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