I sped up serde_json strings by 20%(purplesyringa.moe)

317 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 100 comments

An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by signa11 7 months ago | 82 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?(purplesyringa.moe)

243 points by pngmangi 13 days ago | 21 comments

Blog post examining the x86 FMA instruction vfmaddrnd231pd, which performs fused multiply-add with per-instruction rounding control.

WASM is not quite a stack machine(purplesyringa.moe)

142 points by signa11 6 months ago | 43 comments

Revisiting Textpattern(rubenerd.com)

38 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 14 comments

Simplest Hash Functions(purplesyringa.moe)

44 points by ibobev 6 months ago | 39 comments

Compression and Concatenation on the Web(theconsensus.dev)

8 points by eatonphil 16 days ago | 2 comments

An article on theconsensus.dev about how compression and file concatenation interact in web asset delivery.

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking(sinceyouarrived.world)

495 points by mwheelz 5 months ago | 243 comments

An interactive web page that displays the information a browser reveals to websites automatically, such as device and environment details, without asking permission.

Debugging tricks in the browser(alan.norbauer.com)

531 points by bkudria 3 years ago | 95 comments

A blog post listing dozens of lesser-known JavaScript debugging tricks using browser developer tools, such as conditional breakpoints.

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web(hacks.mozilla.org)

613 points by mikece 7 months ago | 223 comments

Mozilla Hacks article by Ryan Hunt on why WebAssembly remains a second-class language on the web and how to make it first-class.

The Website Specification(specification.website)

526 points by k1m 4 months ago | 210 comments

Website Spec is a platform-agnostic specification and checklist of 128 technical features a good website should have, covering SEO, accessibility, security, and agent readiness.

Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)

384 points by networked 1 month ago | 149 comments

A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.