The Daily Index — Monday, January 6, 2025 · TLDR Index

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TLDR Web Dev

TLDR Web Dev

YOU DON'T NEED NEXT.JS

ComfyDeploy migrated its dashboard from Next.js to a plain React setup, which improved build times (from 3 minutes to 18 seconds) and hot reload speed (under 200ms). This decision was driven by escalating Vercel costs, testing difficulties with Next.js's server actions, and painfully slow local development. The migration incorporated TanStack Router and Rspack, forcing architectural improvements and cleaner code.

comfydeploy.com · 6 min

TLDR Web Dev

BACK TO BASICS: WHY WE CHOSE LONG POLLING OVER WEBSOCKETS

Inferable chose HTTP long polling over WebSockets for its real-time system due to scalability challenges with its Node.js/TypeScript backend and PostgreSQL database. Long polling, unlike short polling or WebSockets, keeps the connection open until data is available or a timeout is reached, offering a balance between immediacy and resource efficiency. This approach avoided complexities associated with WebSockets, such as adapting its observability stack, authentication mechanisms, and infrastructure configurations.

inferable.ai · 10 min

TLDR Web Dev

HOW AI-ASSISTED CODING WILL CHANGE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: HARD TRUTHS

There are two developer types: "bootstrappers," who use AI for rapid prototyping, and "iterators," who use AI in daily workflows. While AI accelerates development a lot, it introduces challenges like the "70% problem," where achieving the final 30% of software quality requires real human expertise. As a result, AI makes the lives of experienced software engineers easier, but doesn't replace them.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 25 min

TLDR Web Dev

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD AN AI

This developer extracted an AI model from Microsoft's Seeing AI app. The app's model was found encrypted within the APK file as a TensorFlow Lite model. It was then verified using Netron, which led to the successful extraction of the AI model's weights and biases.

altayakkus.substack.com · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

THANK YOU (2024 EDITION)

The CSS-Tricks website returned to consistent publishing in 2024, leading to 26 million unique pageviews, many significant site updates and content additions, and new goals.

css-tricks.com · 13 min

TLDR Web Dev

WORLD'S FIRST MIDI SHELLCODE

This author gained remote code execution on a Yamaha PSR-E433 synthesizer via its MIDI interface by reverse engineering its firmware.

psi3.ru · 45 min

TLDR Web Dev

PRINTF DEBUGGING IS OK

Devs should take a pragmatic approach to debugging, and all techniques are valid (including just using printf) for efficiently finding and fixing bugs.

polymonster.co.uk · 8 min

TLDR Web Dev

THE RECOIL REPOSITORY HAS BEEN ARCHIVED ON JAN 1, 2025. YOU HAD A GOOD RUN (REDDIT THREAD)

After both maintainers of Recoil, a React state management library created by Meta, were laid off, the repository was officially archived as no Meta engineers were willing to take up the work of maintaining it.

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