Articles, guides, and thoughts on web development and technology
Discover how a 40-year-old networking optimization is silently sabotaging the responsiveness of your modern real-time APIs and how a single line of code can fix it.
Transitioning to QUIC isn't always a performance win; learn why network middleboxes and ISP 'UDP policing' might be turning your protocol upgrade into a hidden bottleneck.
Bypassing the structured clone algorithm is the only way to achieve sub-millisecond communication between threads in a high-load JavaScript environment.
Vertical centering no longer requires the Flexbox or Grid tax—discover how a 2024 update to the CSS Box Alignment spec finally killed the web's oldest layout struggle.
Analyze the hidden costs of draw call submission and the architectural shifts required to achieve 100,000 active objects in the browser.
An analysis of how DuckDB-Wasm leverages vectorized execution and columnar storage to move heavy analytical processing directly to the client's hardware.
An investigation into why the V8 engine struggles to inline Proxy traps and the specific architectural patterns that trigger 'megamorphic' performance cliffs.
Stop waiting for sequential type-checking and unlock true parallel builds in your codebase by adopting the new isolatedDeclarations requirement.
The WebCodecs API offers surgical control over raw video bitstreams, but mastering the explicit lifecycle of hardware-accelerated frames is the only way to prevent catastrophic memory exhaustion.
Moving your LLM to the client-side isn't free—uncover how VRAM pressure can silently throttle your UI and crash your browser tabs even when compute is available.