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by LinguaBrowse 15d ago
Playing around with the demos, none of the solutions seem very centred at all? I think the lh unit is surely part of the puzzle, but something more is needed. It assumes that the ascent and descent are symmetrical, for one thing.
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Permission to Live (In Japan)(buttondown.com)
3 points by LinguaBrowse 16d ago|1 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 16d ago
Having recently got permanent residency in Japan, I thought I might share a bit about the motivations and process for any other engineers interested in making such a move.
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by LinguaBrowse 2mo ago
Safari does support extensions (implemented as Safari App Extensions that can wrap standard Web Extensions if desired). There was a time where WKWebView didn’t support Web Extensions (i.e. Web Extensions could only be used with Safari). But
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by LinguaBrowse 4mo ago
I’ve moved my S&P 500 investments to the Equal Weight index to reduce my exposure to AI. Quite aside from SpaceX, I think the large-cap tech companies are making some uncomfortably large bets on AI and any major upset could cause a domi
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by LinguaBrowse 8mo ago
They're closed for sign-ups, so no way to view their feed :( But happy to follow those accounts.
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by LinguaBrowse 8mo ago
I definitely feel this. We're a far cry from the early days of Facebook where you could just post your thoughts and feelings and real people you'd know and care about would come and interact with you. Now all I see is posts from g
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by LinguaBrowse 8mo ago
The thing about Hacker News is that it's a real fight for life to get any engagement. Just showing the humble project you're working on doesn't cut it. You need to time your submission just right and impress like you're
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Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
56 points by LinguaBrowse 8mo ago|52 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Oh, drat. Just about to go to bed now, but I’ll sort that out tomorrow. Thanks!
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Birchdocs, my personal docs site(birchdocs.tokyo)
2 points by LinguaBrowse 1y ago|3 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
I've learned a lot over 10 years as a software engineer and thought it was about time I had a place to write up all this hard-earned knowledge. So I created a docs site, for myself! I gradually realised that, as a "personal"
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
I'm keeping my eye on Void0, yeah! If anyone can live up to such promises, it'll be them. They'll have a tough job getting sticky ecosystems like React Native to adopt, but hope to see them make a compelling case for their st
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to get this one out of the way so that I can do some less ambitious articles for a change. But hope to make them good in their own way, too!
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Eh, writing is hard!
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
A very good thought! Deno and Bun have this formidable funding for sure, but Node.js is still innovating. Things like type-stripping and require(esm) come to mind. I think as long as big companies use it for Electron, Node.js will continue
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Could be to draw upon the existing JavaScript ecosystem, or could just be because JavaScript is the language the dev knows best! I feel really nerfed when I have to move from JavaScript to other languages, personally, even if I can get thin
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Thank you! I'd tend to default to Expo if building a mobile app in JavaScript these days, but Capacitor, Tauri, and NativeScript are all good options too.
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Thank you very much, really appreciate it! There's a respectable article on engines ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_engines ), but indeed, no article on runtimes. I did feel that they were under-d
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Very cool, though when I was qualifying the scope for "the last decade", I was doing it by creation date rather than usage date, so I think I get a pass on this one!
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
I've heard nothing but high praise for GraalJS, yeah. I wonder whether it'd make any sense inside mobile apps – not due to any feature in mind, but simply out of interest because that's more the area I'm using JavaScript
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
> Did you consider things like JScript.NET? jsc.exe still comes with every Windows installation, and JScript still runs on IIS server (I have built a few things with it). I've not heard of any of these, wow – very cool that it'
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
No idea! The only benchmarks I'm aware of for QuickJS are against other JavaScript engines ( https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html ). That said, one thing I've heard a lot from NativeScript TSC members buildin
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
The other reploies seem to have answered it! I've never understood why iOS allows JIT inside WKWebView yet not inside bare JavaScriptCore. Maybe because WKWebView runs in its own separate process while a JavaScriptCore instance would r
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
I totally agree that the lack of JIT has been a huge waste of human resources. NativeScript and React Native have had to move so many mountains to make viable software despite it.
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Oh right, thanks for the insight. Wondering how to rephrase it. Did AWS at least create it, or fund it? rquickjs looks like a good one to include in the article. I've just edited it into the polyglot engines section (I think I've
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
I'm not familiar with the term "context tracking", and management of the event loop is a bit lower level than I normally go, but I do know several runtimes use libuv ( https://libuv.org ) to handle asynchronous I&#x
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
> I thought over the last decade we let other languages into the browser Not so much! Rhino was an effort to rewrite Netscape Navigator in Java, and I expect that if that rewrite had taken off, Java might've gained a foothold (thoug
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
Thank you! It did cross my mind. I've archived a couple of the hard-won links in there that I had a feeling at great risk of rotting. But thankfully a lot of the links are to GitHub pages, so I'm not so worried about those. Unfo
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by LinguaBrowse 1y ago
At 17 years old, I think it's comfortably outside of the scope of the article I was focusing on (the last decade), but thanks for bringing it to my attention! > Ejacs is based heavily on work by Brendan Eich (SpiderMonkey, Narcissus

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