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ep9 v8: Initial implementation of optional chaining ⛓️‍💥

A quick tour through compiler design to see how v8 implemented optional chaining in Javascript

Jan 11 •

28:29

November 2024

ep8 plot: waffle mark 🧇

Observable's data visualization library is full of fun little tricks, especially with this waffle mark commit

Nov 19, 2024 •

24:19

ep7 duckdb: Add Damerau-Levenshtein string comparison function

A flashy new open-source database and it's relationship to academic papers from the 60s and 70s

Nov 6, 2024 •

22:44

October 2024

ep6 log4j: Remove Message Lookups

A massive log4j security vulnerability known as log4Shell is disclosed and fixed (then fixed again).

Oct 8, 2024 •

23:26

September 2024

ep5 zed: Improve performance of select-all-matches

Speeding up Zed's select-all-matches by a factor of 250 with 75 lines of Rust

Sep 23, 2024 •

18:12

ep4 mastodon: Add support for incoming rich text

Will Mastodon have full rich text support in the future?

Sep 13, 2024 •

11:33

ep3 firefox: Update textarea intrinsic height calculations

A Gen-Z textarea bug old enough to vote finally gets a fix.

Sep 9, 2024 •

9:37

ep2 bun: implement bun outdated

Bun upping it's package manager game, and Zig flexing its strengths

Sep 2, 2024 •

31:16

August 2024

ep1 node: lib add fetch

How Node caught up to the browsers

Aug 23, 2024 •

15:55

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