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Shallow clones versus structured clones

January 14, 2025

There have been many ways in JavaScript over the years to make deep clones of objects, examples include Lodash’s cloneDeep and using JSON to stringify and then parse an object. However it turned out...

Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results

January 13, 2025

We know that browsers do all sorts of different things under the hood. One of those things is the way they not only fetch resources like images and scripts from the server but how they prioritize thos...

ECMAScript feature: import attributes

January 13, 2025

The ECMAScript feature “Import Attributes” (by Sven Sauleau, Daniel Ehrenberg, Myles Borins, Dan Clark and Nicolò Ribaudo) helps with importing artifacts other than JavaScript modules. In this bl...

Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web

January 13, 2025

The web’s caching model served us well for over two decades. Recently, in the name of privacy, it’s undergone a fundamental shift that challenges many of our performance optimization assumptions. ...

Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes — Smashing Magazine

January 10, 2025

HTML attributes are like little instructions that we add to the markup of elements to make them do certain things or behave in certain ways. For example, most of us know that the target attribute with...

CSS Selectors

January 10, 2025

CSS selectors Advent Calendar 2024 Source: CSS Selectors...

crawshaw – 2025-01-06

January 9, 2025

This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs whil...

HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me

January 8, 2025

Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language. “That’s not real code; it’s just markup”...

Declarative Shadow DOM

January 7, 2025

In this article, I will first highlight the challenge that has made using web components, specifically the shadow DOM, a non-starter for many projects. But then, we will explore an evolution of shadow...

Cognitive load is what matters

January 7, 2025

Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It’s not some fancy abstract concept, but rather a fundamental hum...

Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025

January 7, 2025

Not all of this is like absolutely brand spanking new just-dropped-in-2024 stuff. Some of it is, but generally it’s relatively new stuff that’s all pretty great. I’m pointing things out that I t...

Balancing Text In CSS

January 6, 2025

Almost two years ago, I published an article about text-wrap: balance and how useful it is. I thought about revisiting the topic with a more solid exploration and examples that include different value...

New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025

January 6, 2025

As we are moving towards 2025, it’s a good time to revisit some of the incredible new technologies that are broadly available and supported in modern browsers today. Let’s dive right in and explor...

Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too)

January 6, 2025

The smartphone boom changed everything. Suddenly, apps were everywhere, connecting people, solving problems, and entertaining us. But for a while now, they’ve started to feel more like a burden than...

Web Performance Calendar » Getting Real (small) With Compression Dictionaries

December 31, 2024

Compression dictionary transport is a relatively new feature in HTTP that allows for using custom compression dictionaries to improve the compression of HTTP responses. The results can be pretty drama...

December 30, 2024

List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent....

Turing Machines

December 23, 2024

By the end of this post, you will know: What a Turing machine is. What can and cannot be computed. What it means to be Turing complete. How modern computers relate to Turing machines. How to write and...

The death of the stubborn developer

December 23, 2024

Here’s the rub: As of about May, LLMs can now execute most of the leaf tasks and even some higher-level interior tasks, even on large software projects. Which is great. But what’s left over for hu...

Bringing AI to the Browser – On-Device AI with the Web AI Toolkit

December 20, 2024

Welcome! Today we will be covering On-Device AI for Web Apps. Yes, you can run AI models on the users device, accelerated by a GPU or even NPU all from your web app, no hybrid framework or plugins nee...

Speculative loading and the Speculation Rules API

December 19, 2024

Speculative loading, or navigation speculation, is the concept of predicting (speculating about) which page a user might visit next and doing some or all of the work to load that page before they visi...

Top 5 AI Engineering Trends of 2024 – The New Stack

December 17, 2024

This time last year, I wrote that AI engineering in 2023 was defined by a proliferation of LLMs and an expansion of AI dev tooling. In 2024, those trends continued — but also the market for both LLM...

Century-Scale Storage

December 17, 2024

This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that happen? How should the bits in...

Ethical Web Principles

December 17, 2024

The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the consequences of our work. The following...

Using Transformers.js for AI in the Browser

December 16, 2024

Using Transformers.js makes use of what they call a ‘pipeline’ API. You will import the general API into your code and then select a pipeline based on your use case. The docs list a set of...