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chris_pieon TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

In your example, I'd use Record<PropertyKey, unknown> instead

It's a standard practice in functional languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_type

chris_pieon Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

Might be worth noting that Chromium seems to only use subpixel rendering on high-constrast text. I've also seen sites that don't use it for some other unknown reason, for example Microsoft Teams.

chris_pieon Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

To save some people a click: it requires a subscription.

chris_pieon Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

ML models do have a "source" though

chris_pieon Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

It absolutely doesn't. It sounds like further diluting the term "open-source" isn't great.

chris_pieon Hedy: Textual programming made easy

Also Excel functions are translated based on your region. Which I find annoying, because most learning resources and references are in English, and English function names don't work in other regional settings.

chris_pieon A standards-first web framework

Magic Loop looks very similar to Crank (that nobody knows about either). Was it an inspiration?

chris_pieon Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?

Extremely anecdotal, but I've always found GitHub pages to be noticeably slower. Which is weird, because they use Fastly which is generally good.

chris_pieon App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)

Surprisingly, socket.io supports WebTransport: https://socket.io/get-started/webtransport

The guys at Colyseus (a JS library for multiplayer games netcode) also added support, in a preview version for now.

chris_pieon Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

SSE are old, hardly "the new shiny thing".

chris_pieon Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

Head-of-line still exists in HTTP/3, but on another level. A stream can still get blocked. With websockets the whole connection gets blocked (HTTP/1), but that connection isn't shared with anything else, right?

Worth noting that HTTP/3 seems to recover faster than TCP-based protocols.

chris_pieon App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)

Support is getting there on the browsers' side, but you need a backend that supports HTTP3+WebTransport - barely any out there

chris_pieon Tldraw Computer

In tldraw the text is always in the DOM, so the browser can use your native font rendering (for example ClearType on Windows). In Excalidraw the text is only in the DOM while you're editing it.

chris_pieon Tldraw Computer

And ("vanilla") tldraw supports subpixel font rendering, unlike most of their competition (for example excalidraw or Miro).

chris_pieon Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019)

There's a Rocksmith mod that allows you to control the menu using the guitar. Also, the Rocksmith USB cable is simply an ADC (with lower latency than most)

chris_pieon Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

Latest Android has that built-in as a "Night Mode". You can also set a schedule or have it enable while charging

chris_pieon Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

Huh? You're still a personal data processor.

chris_pieon Svelte 5 Released

offtop, but could you share a bit on why you hate 11ty? I was considering it for a static site.

chris_pieon Replited: Replicate SQLite to anywhere (S3\FTP\webdav\Google Drive\Dropbox,etc.)

You say it's inspired by Litestream. How is it different?

chris_pieon Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

you can configure the breakpoint to log stuff to the console, instead of breaking

chris_pieon A Local-First Case Study

https://remotestorage.io while it's a specific protocol for storing user data on a compatible server, their library also provides Google Drive integration

chris_pieon A Burrito Is a Monad

This is F#. >== is a bind operator, but it's not built into the language, so it's defined as a custom operator here. |> is a pipe

chris_pieon A Burrito Is a Monad

I think this is F#, not Haskell. '*' creates a product type, pretty sure it's a tuple in this case. "Meat option" is an alternative syntax for "Option<Meat>" and "Ingredient list" is a linked list of Ingredients

chris_pieon Elixir's LiveView pairs beautifully with front end frameworks

Small addition because I didn't realise how LiveSvelte works. The backend pushes updated svelte component props to the client instead. You still often have to communicate the client-side changes to the server.

chris_pieon Elixir's LiveView pairs beautifully with front end frameworks

While this paradigm is promising, I see a problem with it. When you make a client-side change to the DOM, it can get overwritten by a subsequent incoming patch from the server.

LiveView tries to be somewhat smart when patching the HTML by sending down only the dynamic parts. But on the client it generates the new HTML and morphs it into the DOM quite crudely (and inefficiently, but that's another can of worms).

I've seen a workaround for this, by notifying the server of the change via an event, mirroring of sorts. But this is messy, and can require reimplementing the same conditional template logic on the backend.

chris_pieon Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy

That's like saying sound is a lie, because it's just a vibration propagating a wave.

chris_pieon Redis users considering alternatives after licensing move

Garnet doesn't support Lua scripting, which is quite useful for custom atomic operations.

chris_pieon 2M users but no money in the bank

Don't most payment platforms have a constant minimum fee per transaction? That would hurt you at a $1 price.

chris_pieon Show HN: I cloned HN to make a simple portfolio page

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