data0 @data0@fosstodon.org

Hey Fediverse! I plan to make this profile a notebook of #TIL bits about #webdev, #javascript, #software and #hardware. Probably the odd toot about digital privacy, free speech and computer history. Will try to help the community as best as I can!

#TIL Chromium #devtools has a handy memory inspector since v91. It's quite hidden. You've got to click on the tiny chip icon next to an ArrayBuffer to open it.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-inspector/

#javascript #webdev #debugging

"Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure." — Russell Ackoff

#quote #programming #wisdom #software #managing #antipattern

Into music? Check out https://roland50.studio. It's #Roland celebrating 50th anniversary with virtual vintage drum machines / synthesizers. #TR808 #TR606 #TB303 #SP404 #SH101

It's also a well-built and performant multimedia website done with #nextjs. Haven't found out more yet, because I immediately get stuck making music for hours on end before I manage to open the dev tools 😃

Just listened to #SyntaxFM episode 453 "Why do people still use #Axios over #Fetch?" #javascript

Honestly, all of the things mentioned can be achieved with a few lines of code in a wrapper function* or service worker. No need to pull in 20 kB of external code unless you're using all of the features. #UseThePlatform!

*) Building a little #API client is almost always very useful anyway

An old-school demo built for #awk. Yes, you read that right! Not #Amiga, not #C64… it's for awk. And it's great! #demoscene #unix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5aEjfBSQRI

[2/2] Same goes for ESLint. I've replaced it with quick-lint-js. This also means losing all ESLint plugins unfortunately (bye-bye eslint-plugin-react*), but its speed (almost instant) won out in the end.

Let me know if you want to see how I've integrated both into #vim!

https://quick-lint-js.com/

[1/2] Prettier ist a great code formatter. But it tends to be slow due to being written in #JavaScript itself and requiring a #Node.js cold start on every run.

Lately I've been testing out dprint. Written in #Rust, it's much faster. And it has some nice additional features like sorting imports, which is great for ocd people like me :-)

https://dprint.dev/

#TIL The Ledger hardware wallet has a #FIDO app turning it into an authentication key (read Yubikey, Google Titan etc.). Who would've thought this thing is still useful after the #crypto crash :-P

Did you know that #nodejs has a built-in and easy to use cluster module that can make your server apps faster and more reliable by utilizing all CPU cores?

https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html

Hey Fediverse! I plan to make this profile a notebook of #TIL bits about #webdev, #javascript, #software and #hardware. Probably the odd toot about digital privacy, free speech and computer history. Will try to help the community as best as I can!