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Node.js 26.11.1 (Current)

Quoting Ben Affleck

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years…

Claude Haiku 5.5

As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced at $1/million…

Trait object with associated types in field - requires generic param?

I currently have: trait ListModel { fn get_stuff(&self, row: i) -> Stuff; ... } struct List { model: Rc<dyn ListModel>, ... } I think I want to change my model to use row IDs instead of usize indices. If I do this:…

Any thin wrapper around the Web Worker API?

Hi, I'm currently writing some audio decoding pipeline targeting wasm32-unknown-unknown. In the queue / jittering part, I wanna be able to have one task that pushes data as it comes (with all the network uncertainties),…

Add a formatting specifier to limit the max length displayed of collections

Initially copy/pasted from Add a formatting specifier to limit the max length displayed of collections · Issue #906 · rust-lang/libs-team · GitHub, but with some minor changes. Sometimes, collections get super long, and…

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and…

Node.js 26.11.0 (Current)

"my favorite framework is public static void main()"-airhacks.fm podcast

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes The #417 airhacks.fm episode with Andrzej Grzesik (@ags313) about: The way from peek and poke on a 386 to Apache Hadoop clusters, GlassFish and EJBs at Sabre and…

Rust Foundation Live Stream

Your Next Action Is Two Dots Away

What’s new for command completion in IntelliJ IDEA Modern IDEs are packed with power. The real challenge isn’t whether your IDE can do something – it’s remembering how to trigger it. Some features live behind shortcuts.…

Quoting Jake Boggan

I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years…

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:…

How I Built an In-Browser, Zero-Upload PDF Merger & Converter Using WebAssembly and Canvas

Whenever you search for a simple utility like "Merge PDF" or "Convert WebP to PNG", you are usually greeted by the same frustrating experience: A 15MB file upload limit behind an aggressive paywall. A subscription…

TanStack React Router

Introdução É um roteador para React focado em type-safety de ponta a ponta: rotas, parâmetros de URL, query strings e dados carregados por loaders são todos inferidos pelo TypeScript, sem precisar escrever tipos…

Axios timeout for chunked responses

ALRIGHT, this was an interesting one. I use Axios in one of my pet projects. Basically, the project is a Telegram bot that transforms voice messages into text. I know that Telegram now has this feature for premium…

I Built a Grocery Sim Where the Stock Only Exists on My Server

I work part-time in a grocery store. Stocking shelves, facing product, the whole thing. One night I thought: what if I made that into a game? So my team and I did. It's called STOCK BOY — a 16-bit grocery rush game, and…

Merging PDFs in the browser with pdf-lib (no server upload)

Most online PDF mergers upload your file to a server. For sensitive documents, that's a problem. Approach Use pdf-lib in the browser: Read files with File.arrayBuffer() PDFDocument.load() each source copyPages() into a…

The child that vanished: an order-dependent bug in my 2D render pipeline

I'm building BeeEngine, a 2D HTML5 Canvas game engine in plain JavaScript. One of its core pieces is BeeLayer, the draw pipeline. Every frame it walks the entities, decides which pass each one belongs to, and hands them…

Phone field on Angular Signal Forms

Signal Forms went stable in Angular 22. They bring FormValueControl, a contract where a custom control hands the form a value and a list of errors. A toggle or a stepper meets it in a few lines. The real test is a…