Svelte runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM. As a result, you’re able to write ambitious applications with excellent performance characteristics.

Memoize hooks are great at optimizing for performance. Chris covers the useRef, useCallback, and useMemo memoize hooks.

When passing value to native HTML inputs, these become managed by React. Learn about the implications and nuance.

What does Spectre mean for V8? Well, it’s pretty bad. But at least we have site isolation in Chrome.

On Twitter, @copyconstruct remarked:

So the V8 team is claiming that effectively strong process level isolation is the only hope against Spectre (and that disabling or reducing the granularity of timers and other such fixes are insufficient).

Also lol at “the idea that safe languages enforce a proper abstraction”

How to use WebAssembly to build fast and interactive playgrounds for command-line tools like jq.

Domain Name System — DNS — bears the inglorious responsibility of turning a hostnames like pets.com into a machine-friendly IP address. RJ tells the story

Ever heard of “Temporal Databases”? Yup, it’s a thing.

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there’s usually a good reason.