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Comment #49238167
They didn’t follow their own advice for their accessibility practices page https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/
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Comment #49094456
If you have a cancel button inside a form, you can point that button to another form dedicated to deleting with the form attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTM…
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Comment #48920369
I love the line “This friction synchronizes people.” Part of the understanding that is missed being learned by the team are the failure modes: how can this system fail and how cata…
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Comment #48906265
Yet another example where using and with zero JavaScript would be a better user experience. If you are going to write custom code you have to clear the minimum bar of what the brow…
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Comment #48642040
Thanks for your honest thoughts. It bothers me because there’s many places to check all the time. It seems every tool has an inbox and wants to send me notifications about it. I ha…
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Comment #48401903
> if you can use AI to achieve full test coverage, are there actual benefits in static typing for coding agents? Full test coverage doesn’t tell you if the tests behave correctly. …
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Comment #48226479
It definitely wasn’t “working great”, I’ve now fixed a bug in the event system that was causing loops. The performance should be improved now. Yes, accessibility is a key concern o…
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Comment #48226398
Thanks, I had shipped a bug in the event system. The performance should be much improved now.
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Comment #48215184
I’ve found canvas + WebAssembly works great together! Here’s an example of Sudoku running in WebAssembly (it was vibe coded in Zig) and then rendered to canvas. The interface betwe…
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Comment #48108140
Exactly, this is why I’m using AI to write C or Zig that compiles to WebAssembly. The purpose of a scripting language was to make authoring easier, but now it’s mostly a middle lay…
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Comment #47757297
In a world of AI coding it seems like we can create or copy almost anything. So after some denial I’m thinking let’s embrace that and bring back “view source”. qip lets you write t…
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Comment #47753085
Can we ask virtual Mark “What’s the strategic thinking behind making a virtual version of yourself?”
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Comment #47688452
Previously Anthropic subscribers got access to the latest AI but it seems like there’s a League of Software forming who have special privileges. To make or maintain critical softwa…
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Comment #47202333
Can optimize in theory, or are you saying this is what JavaScript engines do today?
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Comment #47202328
Thank you, I stand corrected! I must have been tired originally reading this.
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Comment #47188439
The allocation of each object still has overhead though, even if they all live side-by-side. You get memory overhead for each value. A Uint8Array is tailor-made for an array of byt…
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Comment #47188273
WebAssembly is particularly attractive for agentic coding because prompting it to write Zig or C is no harder than prompting it to write JavaScript. So you can get the authoring sp…
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Comment #47173755
> We said the runtime asks the OS for large chunks of memory. Those chunks are called arenas, and on most 64-bit systems each one is 64MB (4MB on Windows and 32-bit systems, 512KB …
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Comment #46999101
If people who wore Google Glass without respect for others were Glassholes, perhaps people who unleash their OpenClaw instance onto the internet without respect are Clawholes?
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Comment #46956994
I’m working on qip, a cli for running fast sandboxed WebAssembly modules. https://github.com/royalicing/qip We have LLMs that generate code but that code should be untrusted: perha…