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The frustration with the Gmail triager is typical unfortunately. Google teams have outsourced almost all user issue triage to contractors and the actual engineers don't interact wi…

Airbnb has a version of this internally that was pretty awesome called Evergreen, based on the Uber paper as well. I wish more companies would open source their monorepo infra. A w…

Servo is 14 years old, it's hardly a new project. Ladybird has come much farther in a shorter amount of time. The issue has always been Mozilla not being focused.

Not supporting comments will be a mistake that haunts this API. They give an example of replacing properties files but those do have standardized comments! The proposed pre-process…

GKE uses spanner (with an etcd API layer) per the docs. https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concept... https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes…

GitHub and LinkedIn both appear to be pretty successful businesses.

Is Xbox really worse than Play-Station? It's a pretty good name actually because it's unique, easy to Google, and is never ambiguous in conversation. It's all the suffixes that mad…

Yahoo. They very nearly bought Google too, but refused the initial $1m offer and then bid too low the second time. Kind of hilarious to see how that played out over time. Yahoo had…

The good part about a language runtime is there's a massive corpus of tests that are in that language and agnostic to the implementation language. For a JS engine that's Test 262: …

Apple was doing effectively everything on that list, though the self driving car was cancelled and the AI is now gemini.

Is the simpler thing not Lambda/Cloud Run (with terraform)? On the application developer side k8s is awesome fo, but the you look inside the box and it melts your face off. I'm not…

I assume they meant the Attention process in LLMs, not the human concept of paying attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_(machine_learning)

One big difference seems to be Mastra has tests and this project doesn't.

It also can't inherit css variables which is unfortunate since it means the image doesn't respect the theme.

They totally could sanitize it, just like they did with the gadget proxy, they just choose not to fix this ancient request. It's like my ticket to add data url support to sheets. I…

There's a whole movie about a snail that's super fast (Turbo). An adult version of that isn't so far fetched.

Yes, I was around during the original discussions. AbortSignal exists because TC39 was taking too long and cancelling fetch() is table stakes for a networking oriented platform lik…

I just can't help but imagine those long lived rats escaping and taking over our cities. We already struggle with the rat population and they only live 3 years, imagine if they liv…

AbortSignal is same thing on the Web. It's unfortunate TC39 failed to ever bring a CancelToken to the language to standardize the pattern outside browsers.

The proposal already exists [1], but vendors would need to agree to both prioritize and ship it. Right now Chrome is much more focused on AI related APIs (sigh) and not stuff like …

The FontMetrics API solves this, hopefully browsers will ship it someday. https://drafts.css-houdini.org/font-metrics-api-1/ RIP eae@.

It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on location tracking withou…

This is very cool, but I'm confused why the React player is smaller than the HTML player. What's actually in the size comparison there?

The worker situation would be much better with inline workers (or modules). https://github.com/tc39/proposal-module-declarations Unfortunately the JS standards folks have refused s…

No one really does, but there's one particular individual who keeps pushing to support things like node 0.3 and who also maintains all those low level intrinsic packages.