Articles, guides, and thoughts on web development and technology
Stop using hidden input hacks to get your custom elements into a form; the ElementInternals API is the only way to achieve true native form participation.
Stop generating hundreds of static hex codes and start deriving your entire UI palette dynamically using the power of the CSS 'from' keyword.
Stop wasting CPU cycles: the new FileSystemObserver API finally gives the web a native way to react to disk changes in real-time without the battery-draining overhead of manual polling.
Master the browser's native ability to pause rendering for async scripts, eliminating FOUC without the typical performance penalties of sync loading.
Move beyond the limitations of structured cloning and transaction overhead by treating your browser storage like a high-speed disk.
Stop sacrificing the simplicity of multi-page architectures for the smoothness of an SPA by leveraging the new native @view-transition rule.
I tore apart the architecture of modern edge databases to understand why they favor Log-Structured Merge-Trees and how to survive the sudden latency spikes caused by background compaction.
Native resource management no longer requires manual reference counting thanks to a long-awaited addition to the JavaScript lifecycle.
A technical journey into replacing high-overhead JSON payloads with structured binary protocols to eliminate memory spikes and latency in real-time applications.
Can the Web Neural Network API finally bridge the performance gap between browser-based AI and native silicon?