The Blob URL Is a Memory Leak
Discover why URL.createObjectURL bypasses the garbage collector and how to prevent your SPA from silently accumulating unrevoked memory references.
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The Desynchronized Frame
Input lag in web drawing apps is often treated as an unavoidable law of physics, but the desynchronized canvas hint allows you to bypass the compositor and draw directly to the glass.
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3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Migrating to the Federated Credential Management (FedCM) API
Third-party cookie deprecation is breaking 'Sign in with Google' buttons everywhere, but the native FedCM replacement is far from a drop-in fix.
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Anatomy of a Shared Lock: How Foreign Keys Stale Your Postgres Concurrency
A deep dive into the hidden lock propagation mechanics that cause referential integrity constraints to serialize updates in high-volume databases.
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4 Ways to Use CSS Custom States to Simplify Your Web Component Styling
Why the new ElementInternals.states API is the end of the 'reflect-to-attribute' hack for styling custom elements based on internal logic.
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A Quiet Collision in the Memory Model
Explaining why your lock-free concurrent logic fails on ARM but runs perfectly on x86, and how the Atomics API enforces the sequence.
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Why Are Your Postgres Updates Secretly Doubling Your Table Size?
Learn how updating indexed columns sabotages the Heap Only Tuple (HOT) optimization, leading to explosive table bloat and unnecessary write amplification.
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3 Logic Errors You Can Finally Delete Using Postgres Range Types and EXCLUDE Constraints
Stop manually checking for overlapping timestamps and learn how to use native range types to eliminate scheduling conflicts and data gaps forever.
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Why Do Traditional WebSockets Still Trigger Memory Exhaustion Under High Load?
A technical deep dive into why event-based WebSockets lack backpressure and how the new WebSocketStream API prevents browser tabs from crashing during high-frequency data bursts.
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How I Finally Understood the ResizeObserver: Solving the Infinite Loop Mystery
Stop fighting with 'loop limit exceeded' errors—here is what the browser is actually doing when your layout starts fighting itself.
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