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Making WebAssembly and Wasmtime More Portable (2024)(bytecodealliance.org)
3 points by apitman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by apitman 11mo ago
Nah, learning Rust is trivial. I've done it 3 or 4 times now.
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by apitman 11mo ago
A few other options as well: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
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by apitman 11mo ago
See also https://wasix.org/
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by apitman 11mo ago
That's just been my experience. LAN especially seems rock solid, once it's going. All sorts of issues getting it to connect sometimes. Definitely lag sometimes online. I'm with you on the system requirements bloat. Really sad
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by apitman 11mo ago
The irony is that the netcode is excellent now, but locked to proprietary platforms.
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by apitman 11mo ago
I really hope we see a resurgence in local-first networking. My wife and I can't even play a LAN game of Age of Empires 2 on a plane unless the flight has wifi.
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by apitman 11mo ago
Would love to see something like Tailscale but local-first, where your devices use Bluetooth, mDNS, NFC, QR codes, etc for signaling and only fall back to STUN/TURN as a last resort.
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by apitman 11mo ago
Our open source library is currently hard locked into CUDA due to nvCOMP for gzip decompression (bioinformatics files). What I wouldn't give for an open source implementation, especially if it targeted WebGPU.
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So you want to build an ECS-backed GUI framework (2023)(leafwing-studios.com)
10 points by apitman 11mo ago|3 comments
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by apitman 11mo ago
If you find yourself doing a lot of cross compiling C check out the Zig build system.
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by apitman 11mo ago
They've been trying to strangle the NDK for years. You can't even make an app without a ton of glue code on the JVM.
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by apitman 11mo ago
Rust is easy to learn. I've done it 4 or 5 times.
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by apitman 1y ago
> How Africa is building the future by skipping the past They did the same thing with internet. Went straight to cell/fiber. If you've never heard of M-Pesa, I highly recommend learning about it.
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by apitman 1y ago
> wasm outside the browser for compile-once-run-anywhere usecases with sandboxing / security guarantees I've been using it this way for DecentAuth[0]. It's awesome. I compile a single native codebase to wasm, and I can use
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by apitman 1y ago
> I make sure that as much state as possible is saved in a URL, sometimes (though rarely) down to the scroll position. If your page is server-rendered, you get saved scroll position on refresh for free. One of many ways using JS for ever
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by apitman 1y ago
You're having issues because you're trying to shoehorn it into your desired architecture. Most people just want to run an app on their Windows laptop and start streaming their videos.
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by apitman 1y ago
HN makes these claims all the time. It sounds plausible, but I've never seen any studies on the topic. Do you know of any I could check out?
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by apitman 1y ago
You're from the current generation of selfhosters, which culturally is very similar to kit car builders. The next generation of selfhosters/indiehosters just want a car to get from point A to point B. Sqlite is better for those pe
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by apitman 1y ago
I hope they keep sqlite as a first class citizen.
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by apitman 1y ago
Why not encode to H264 or another codec more widely supported by clients? Storage is cheap.
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by apitman 1y ago
Jellyfin is one of the very few selfhosted apps that can be run as a simple GUI app on Windows. As an advocate for making selfhosting accessible to less technical people, I'm glad they're using sqlite and also that they don't
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by apitman 1y ago
Cunningham's Law
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by apitman 1y ago
The necessity of this sort of tribal knowledge kills a lot of the simplicity of sqlite for me. Honestly it seems to have a lot of footguns. I've tried to understand proper concurrent use of sqlite with Golang about 5 times and never co
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by apitman 1y ago
This is great news. Given the proliferation of solid local models, it would be cool if llamafile had a way to build your own custom versions with the model of your choice.
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by apitman 1y ago
I suspect in the short term users are going to start solving this more and more by asking ChatGPT how to make their video work on their phone, and it telling them step by step how to do it. Longer term I wonder if complex apps with lots of
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by apitman 1y ago
But this is specifically for relays, so you shouldn't need NAT traversal right? ie in the browser you already know p2p isn't going to work (unless Tailscale implements WebRTC support) so you just go straight to relays for everythi
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by apitman 1y ago
Main downside I see compared to DERP is there's no way for this to work in the browser since it's native UDP. I wonder if it'd be possible to make it work over WebTransport in the future.
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by apitman 1y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by apitman 1y ago
IMO the achilles heel of "Web"DAV is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to add it to web apps, which precludes using it as a remote file system a la Google Drive. I'm assuming this is because browsers won't l

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