TLDR WEB DEV 2023-04-21

WEBGPT

This is a demo that uses WebGPU to run a GPT model on the browser. It’s an implementation of GPT inference in less than 2000 lines of vanilla Javascript.

VITE 4.3 IS OUT

ViteJS 4.3 includes built-in support for Web Workers and a better Rollup integration, making it easier for developers to build fast and scalable web applications.

SSDIFF

SSDiff is a tool to automatically compare two websites visually pixel-by-pixel. It can be a handy tool for screenshot testing different versions of your website.

TO ME

In full-stack applications, Typescript can give us type-safety from the server-side to the client-side, but not from the client to the server. As a result, client to server traffic needs to be type-checked at runtime. The author goes over 3 libraries to do so and settles on Zod as the best one.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

COSTLY CSS PROPERTIES AND HOW TO OPTIMIZE THEM

SPINNING DIAGRAMS WITH CSS

This is a tutorial on how to build animated, spinning diagrams on web pages with just CSS.

BUILDING AI-POWERED APPS IS WAY EASIER THAN YOU THINK

A quick tutorial on using OpenAI API to build an AI shell that turns human language into CLI commands. It also gives a code overview of how to build GPT agents.

STACK OVERFLOW WILL CHARGE AI GIANTS FOR TRAINING DATA

SOME CROSS-BROWSER DEVTOOLS FEATURES YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

INTRODUCING 'TRUSTED PUBLISHERS' - PYPI

A LOOK BACK IN TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF TEST AUTOMATION

A look at how testing for web evolved, the high level and low level approach to testing, and a comparison of two testing tools.

HOW TO WORK WITH DATES AND TIMES IN VANILLA JAVASCRIPT

THREE COMMON KUBERNETES CHALLENGES AND HOW TO SOLVE THEM