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WEBP: THE WEBPAGE COMPRESSION FORMAT

This post explores different compression methods to improve the loading time of a website hosted on GitHub Pages. The author uses WebP to compress their blog's HTML content. This is done as a workaround because their blog hosting platform, GitHub Pages, doesn't support Brotli compression. They describe the process of encoding the HTML as a WebP image and then using JavaScript and the Canvas API to decode it back to HTML on the client-side.

MULTITHREADING IN NODE.JS: USING ATOMICS FOR SAFE SHARED MEMORY OPERATIONS

Multithreading in Node comes with the risk of race conditions, where multiple threads accessing the same memory location can lead to inconsistent results. Atomics is a JavaScript API designed to address this issue by providing atomic operations that guarantee the integrity of shared memory access. It can be used to prevent race conditions and make sure that operations on shared resources occur as a single, uninterruptible unit.

ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS

With fundamental technological change, we tend to make predictions about the wrong things rather than getting our predictions wrong. This has been illustrated in the past, such as in 1950s science fiction, which was unable to envision women working, or the RAND study from 1964 which predicted automatic doctors and robots but missed the rise of general-purpose computing and the internet. This pattern continues today, with the focus on predicting the next big thing like VR or autonomous vehicles while overlooking the potential implications of underlying technological shifts.

LINUX'S BEDTIME ROUTINE

This article presents an overview of how Linux hibernates, focusing on the initial steps leading up to the system freeze. It starts by examining the system files /sys/power/state and /sys/power/disk, which serve as entry points for debugging and controlling hibernation. It then explores the autosleep mechanism, a feature borrowed from Android, which automatically suspends or hibernates the system when it's inactive. Finally, it goes over the steps involved in preparing the system for hibernation, including locking the system, preparing the console, notifying power management components, and synchronizing filesystems to disk.

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