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This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to tuning Postgres for improved performance, focusing on key areas such as memory allocation, disk access, and query processing. It discusses the importance of configuring shared bu...
The text discusses the issues with JavaScript numbers, particularly the problems with floating-point numbers and the limitations of BigInts as a solution. It highlights the inconsistencies and inefficiencies in JavaScript's number...
0My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist
2024-12-31 •
The text discusses the evolution of JavaScript, the changes it needs, and the improvements required in 2025. It covers topics such as functional programming, server runtimes, ES Modules, bundlers, and the integration of WebAssembl...
0JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess
2024-12-23 •
The text discusses the challenges of benchmarking code in JavaScript due to the complexity of its architecture, the influence of the JIT compiler, and the inaccuracies in timing measurements. It also highlights the differences in ...
0Replacing Disqus Commenting
2024-03-21 •
The article discusses the need for a new commenting system to replace Disqus, which is slow, tracks users, and is proprietary. The author introduces ConvoComet, a new commenting system they created to address these issues. They co...
0A deep dive into distributed database architectures
2024-03-12 •
The text discusses the importance of distributed database architectures and the various approaches to distributing data to improve availability, latency, and scalability. It covers query caching, read replicas, partitioning data, ...
010 ways to speed up web image loading
2023-12-19 •
The text provides 10 ways to speed up web image loading, including serving correctly sized images, using modern image formats, using an image-optimized CDN, lazy loading images, decoding images asynchronously, providing low resolu...
The text discusses the scalability issues of TailwindCSS in component-based architectures and offers solutions to these problems. It explains the challenges of using Tailwind in component-based architectures and introduces tools l...
The text compares three popular JavaScript monorepo tools - Lerna, Turborepo, and Rush. It discusses their setup, performance, features, and concludes that Lerna is best for performance, Turborepo for setup, and Rush for features....
0The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023
2023-01-01 •
The article discusses six JavaScript projects to watch in 2023, including Turborepo, Tauri, Bun, Remix, Turbopack, and Astro. It provides an overview of each project's features, benefits, and potential impact on the JavaScript wor...
0Top 5 Alternatives to React in 2023
2022-09-17 •
The article discusses the top 5 alternatives to React in 2023, including Solid.js, Preact, Svelte, Hyperapp, and Mithril. Each alternative is described in terms of its features, performance, and code examples. The author also shar...
0How to use ESM on the web and in Node.js
2022-09-03 •
ESM, also known as ES Modules, is a modern module format built to replace older alternatives like CommonJS, AMD, and UMD. It aims to solve the problem of sharing code between scripts in JavaScript. The syntax used to import and ex...
0React vs Svelte: Which is better in 2023?
2022-08-30 •
The article compares React and Svelte, two prevalent libraries used for building app interfaces. It discusses the learning curve, syntax brevity, performance, and ecosystem of both libraries, ultimately concluding that both are gr...
010 ways to speed up JavaScript loading
2022-08-18 •
The text discusses 10 ways to speed up JavaScript loading on websites, including lazy loading, minification, bundling, code splitting, tree shaking, ECMAScript Modules, CDN hosting, caching, compression, and Lighthouse & Automated...
0What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype?
2022-08-16 •
Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance than Node.js and Deno. It is designed to start and run faster than Node.js and Deno, includes a bundler, TypeScript transpiler, and test runner, an...
0State of JS 2021 Results and Analysis
2022-02-21 •
The State of JS 2021/2022 survey collected over 15,000 responses and provides insights into the usage, awareness, and satisfaction of various JavaScript language features, web APIs, and libraries. The survey covers topics such as ...
0State of the Web: React
2022-02-13 •
The article provides an overview of the recent trends in React, including its background, initial growth, hooks, dynamic updating, isomorphic rendering, advanced templating, the state of React Remix and new React frameworks, React...
010 ways to speed up web font loading
2022-02-11 •
The text provides 10 methods to speed up web font loading, including self-hosting fonts, using modern web font formats, font subsetting, customizing font display, matching fallback fonts, using a CDN, preloading fonts, using local...
0State of the Web: Atomic CSS
2022-02-06 •
The article discusses the growing movement of Atomic CSS, which allows embedding atomic utility classes in HTML, and its evolution through frameworks like TailwindCSS, Windi CSS, and UnoCSS. It also covers the history of CSS, the ...
0State of the Web: Static Site Generators
2022-01-30 •
The article discusses the background of static site generators, the rise of CMSs, the creation of Jekyll, and the benefits of static site generators. It also covers the state of static site generators, JavaScript client-side frame...
0State of the Web: Bundlers & Build Tools
2022-01-23 •
The article discusses the background of bundlers, their importance, and their current state. It covers the evolution of bundlers from Browserify to Webpack, the role of task runners like Grunt and Gulp, optimization, non-web nativ...
0Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro
2022-01-23 •
The article discusses the migration of the blog ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro due to performance and writing tools. It covers the reasons for the migration, the benefits of using Astro, and the challenges faced during the migr...