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phleet

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About phleet

Engineer at Figma, formerly Khan Academy, uWaterloo Software Engineering Alum

Website: http://jamie-wong.com Twitter: @jlfwong

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    10,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we can remove from the air in 2023 1,000,000,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we need to remove by 2050 We need to double our capacity every…

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    Hi! Author here. Agree it could be more discoverable. The feed is here: https://jamie-wong.com/atom.xml

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    I worked at Khan Academy for two internships and then just under 2 years fulltime, and don't know anyone that has anything less than positive to say about Kamens (nobody called him…

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    (Author here) I cheated: to prevent that steady state (since it's ugly), I have 3 dye injectors strategically placed, causing certain areas to get redder, greener, and bluer over t…

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    Comment #12104503

    Author here -- I also just published a new post on ray marching, which you might find interesting if you find this post interesting: http://jamie-wong.com/2016/07/15/ray-marching-s…

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    Comment #10623731

    Webpack's algorithm for doing this is not black magic -- it has to consciously consider the same tradeoffs as were involved in this post. How many chunks should you have?

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    Haha, sorry, that was me. I was eating my words, because it looks like there is support! The experiments described in this post were conducted early this year, and it looks like th…

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    Comment #10426974

    We're playing around with inline-styling our components, but pushing the inline-styles into CSS injected into ` ` tags in the head. It's experimental at the moment, but it's being …

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    This is a hard generalization to make, but it's certainly true in the worst network condition case. Even if your client-side rendering happens instantaneously and your JS is (magic…

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    I've been looking for something like this forever! I loved AutoIt v3 on Windows, and osascript always felt super crippled in comparison (as well as impossible to look up documentat…

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    It's a lot harder to reason about memory constraints on recursive programs. The clearness and correctness of the code often ignores the possibility for stack overflow. Most naive i…

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    Thank you for posting this! We've done similar performance analysis at Khan Academy by using the navigation timing API and throwing the data into graphite. The most interesting par…