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qawolf.com

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YES, YOU SHOULD USE SQLITE: NOTION'S CREATIVE SQLITE USAGE FOR 20% FASTER LOADS

Notion implemented WebAssembly SQLite in its web app. This resulted in a 20% reduction in page navigation latency. To achieve this, its team used Web Workers to offload database operations to background threads and a SharedWorker with the Web Locks API to fix data integrity issues. They also addressed issues of slow disk reads by implementing a "race" between disk cache and network requests.

stacksweep.substack.com · 6 min

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RELIABLY REPLICATING DATA BETWEEN POSTGRESQL AND CLICKHOUSE PART 1 - PEERDB OPEN SOURCE

Clickhouse is increasingly used for analytics by PostgreSQL users, and this often requires data replication between the two. PeerDB is an open-source CDC (Change Data Capture) solution that can be used to make data replication easy. This article goes over how to deploy PeerDB, create test data, and set up initial replication and schema evolution.

benjaminwootton.com · 16 min

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SVELTE 5 IS NOT JAVASCRIPT

Svelte 5 introduces deep reactivity using proxies and implicit component lifecycle state, which has better performance at the expense of more complexity. However, these changes create unexpected issues, such as proxies breaking IndexedDB storage and component state disappearing in closures.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 8 min

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ASK FOR NO, DON'T ASK FOR YES

Instead of seeking permission ("yes") from your boss for initiatives within your role's scope, tell them about your plan and offer them a chance to object ("no"). This means stating your intention to complete a project by a specific deadline and keeping your boss informed along the way. Usually, your boss will say yes or give some comments for improvement.

mooreds.com · 4 min

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UNDERSTANDING THE TRADE-OFFS OF USING TAILWIND CSS

While Tailwind allows devs to ship faster with predefined styles and no custom CSS, it also is harder to maintain and scale in larger projects. Thoughtfully named styles and a well-designed CSS architecture might be better in the long run for complex projects.

measured.co · 9 min

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WHY RUBY ON RAILS STILL MATTERS

Despite the rise of newer tech like Next.js, Ruby on Rails is still valuable due to its simplicity, stability, and focus on web fundamentals. It abstracts away technical complexities, allowing devs to concentrate on key details of the product. Rails is great for projects where speed and lower maintenance are the priority.

contraption.co · 5 min

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OPENAI RESEARCHERS FIND THAT EVEN THE BEST AI IS "UNABLE TO SOLVE THE MAJORITY" OF CODING PROBLEMS

OpenAI researchers found that even the most advanced AI models struggle to solve most coding problems. They tested frontier models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on software engineering tasks from Upwork. While the AI models were fast, they often failed to grasp the context and scope of bugs, creating incorrect or incomplete solutions.

futurism.com · 3 min

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ANSWERING READER FEEDBACK: WAR ROOMS VS. DEEP INVESTIGATIONS

During a major Facebook outage in 2014, known internally as "Call the Cops", this developer found that "war rooms" were pointless for deep investigations. He struggled to diagnose the root cause of the outage while confined to a poorly ventilated room with limited resources. He needed to escape that environment and use his usual setup to effectively investigate. The root cause was eventually traced to a bug in the fbagent process that caused it to kill all processes on the machine when the fork failed due to running out of memory.

rachelbythebay.com · 9 min

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THE CSS TRANSFORM PROPERTY AND INDIVIDUAL TRANSFORMS ARE ADDITIVE

CSS now supports individual transform properties (translate, rotate, and scale), which are all additive. This means they combine with the transform property in a set order—translate first, then rotate, scale, and finally any transformations listed in transform.

polypane.app · 2 min

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ON THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING IN PUBLIC

Blogging about your learning process, like by creating tutorials, is great both for solidifying your own understanding and for helping others who are searching for similar information.

gilesthomas.com · 3 min

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CAPTUREOWNERSTACK

React released the captureOwnerStack API in Canary and experimental channels, which lets you retrieve the current Owner Stack during development as a string, which can be useful for better custom error overlays by providing detailed component ownership information.

react.dev · 3 min