LangGraph for complex workflows| surma.dev
I may be late to the party, but LangGraph lets you build complex workflow architectures and codify them as powerful automations. Also LLMs, if you want. But you don’t have to!| surma.dev
What follows is a brain dump of everything I know about compiling Rust to WebAssembly. Enjoy.| surma.dev
Range requests allow a <video> tag to seek through a video file. Adding support to your dev server is a fun challenge and taught me some interesting things about WHATWG Streams.| surma.dev
When using OpenGL (or WebGL), you have to do everything yourself, including font rendering and layouting. I thought: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could just reuse the browser’s layouting and font-rendering engine instead of heaving to reinvent the wheel?”. Yes, but there’s no API for that. Or is there?| surma.dev
It is tempting to build abstractions so developers have to do less and build more. However, this can easily end up causing frustrations with developers if not done right.| surma.dev
This is one of those times where I got so fascinated by the idea of a thing that I forgot to ask myself whether it’s a good idea to build the thing. The idea being, transpiling JavaScript to C++ so I can compile that to whatever I need.| surma.dev
WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.| surma.dev
Maelstrom Gaming is a team competing in League of Legends. But that’s not what this is about. This is about their homepage and parallax scrolling.| surma.dev
At Chrome Dev Summit 2015 I gave a talk about HTTP/2. I am genuinely excited about the benefits HTTP/2 brings to the web, to its developers and its users alike. If you don’t know about those, I’ll cheekily recommend my own talk – this post is more of a follow-up to the talk.| surma.dev
Clickbait blog post titles. Gotta love ’em. And this post doesn’t mention jank. You have been lied to!| surma.dev
Progressive enhancement At the PWA Roadshow event in London, Stuart Langridge pointed out a mistake in my talk. I was showing a piece of code that would lazyload iFrames. If JavaScript was not running, the iFrames would just be empty. Turns out, that is not how you do progressive enhancement!| surma.dev
Did you see that Pokémon Go reference? Gotta get down with the kidz.| surma.dev
If you are like me and you like to live on the bleeding edge, you will probably have encountered the lack of tutorials, introductions or HowTos for new web APIs. If a new “thing” has actually made it into a browser, like Firefox Nightly or Chrome Canary, the only thing you might have at your disposal is probably the API spec and those tend to be hard to navigate and – fair warning – can turn out to be pretty unreliable.| surma.dev
Two browsers behave differently when given the same code. Which one is the buggy one? The spec is almost guaranteed to contain the answer, but it’s notoriously hard to read. Maybe this will help.| surma.dev
I wrote a thing, made everything keyboard controllable and yet Rob Dodson said its accessibility sucked. WHY?!!| surma.dev
Ah, Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again. The answer to the headline is “No”. Sorry.| surma.dev
The Web Animations API is great. Except that support is mediocre at best. I keep finding myself re-creating them using Promises, rAF and CSS Transitions, which turned out to be pretty ergonomic.| surma.dev
WebRTC is cool. WebRTC is hard. WebRTC is painful, actually. Partly due to how alien the API feels, partly due to many tutorials skipping a lot of the details. Here’s my attempt at describing WebRTC and how I used it for some fun Comlink experiments.| surma.dev
The first consumer devices with variable framerates up to 120Hz are reaching the market and it makes for a notably different user experience. Websites, however, often seem to struggle to reach 60fps — how can we even talk about 120fps then?| surma.dev
Everything old is new again. Let’s take a concurrency model from the 70s and apply it to the web in 2017. Why? Well, read on, will ya?| surma.dev
How do I copy an object in JavaScript? It’s a simple question, without a simple answer.| surma.dev
I don’t often use RegExp. But when I do, it’s a variation of this pattern.| surma.dev
One of the great joys of working at Google is seeing the big trends in web development. It’s genuinely awesome to see all the innovation and excitement around new ways of crafting experiences. Though, if I’m honest, there are other trends I see, too: developers still feel overwhelmed at the vast array of approaches and tooling, struggle with performance, and fight almost daily to create compelling apps & sites that work across devices and browsers.| surma.dev
Whenever Jake and I shoot a new episode of HTTP203, you see the two of us having an incessantly long conversation. What you don’t see is the crew of people that work quite literally behind the camera: lights have to be dimmed, as much voice with as little noise as possible has to be recorded, cameras have to be started and focused. All of that material then gets cut, edited, graded, polished and subtitled. Each of these activities have a dedicated person, whose sole responsibility it is to ...| surma.dev
I love photography. I love checking out what people are snapping on Instagram, I watch YouTube videos on how to take and edit my own photos, and above all I love capturing a special moment in time of a person, a place, or a thing.| surma.dev
I want to change how we — as a community — approach, analyze, and understand performance problems. Often I see questions like "What's the best way to do X?", "What is the fastest library to do Y?". Superlatives are human nature, it seems. But for performance work, they can be counter-productive.| surma.dev
Can you use the DOM in WebAssembly? Rust says yes, other people say no. Before we can resolve that dissonnance, I need to shine some light on what raw WebAssembly can do.| surma.dev
You should always use Web Workers. And in our current landscape of frameworks it’s virtually impossible.| surma.dev
Redux is state management. State management belongs off the main thread.| surma.dev
Can you use WHATWG Streams for reactive programming? It seems so. But is it a good idea?| surma.dev
Keeping the frame rate stable is vital for virtual reality applications. Off-main-thread architecture can help ensure that the frames keep shipping.| surma.dev
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.| surma.dev
Portrait mode artificially blurs out the background of an image to make it look... “better”. Turns out the reason this is done artificially is physics more than anything else.| surma.dev
Add WebAssembly, get performance. Is that how it really works?| surma.dev
A big part of interviews is development velocity and agility. And that can be optimized for.| surma.dev
A compiler is just a part of Emscripten. What if we stripped away all the bells and whistles and used just the compiler?| surma.dev
