This is brilliant! From Giuseppe Sollazzo’s newsletter, visualisation from Reddit user Udzu

This internal Shopify Summit was *huge*. From what I've heard, the only reason the record is not "official" is because Guinness charges you money to recognize an achievement.

🔊 Are Web Components Worth It? In the latest OTMT, me and Surma look at the benefits and tradeoffs of web components, and how things could improve. ⬇️ Listen here ⬇️ offthemainthread.tech/episode/are-we…

easy isometric pixel art you say? like some sort of... easymetric? soon to an Aseprite near you

Scheduled a pickup with DHL Express UK, they never arrived and I can’t schedule a new pickup time. Went to website and clicked on “Help & Support”. It shows this in response. 10/10 would Lorem Ipsum again.

🎧 Not that loads of people asked for it, but Jake Archibald and I put our Off The Main Thread podcast up on Google Podcast/YouTube/Google Music/YouTube Music/<insert Google’s current product iteration name>. music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

If you don't listen to OTMT, you're missing out on this kind of insight from competent professionals

📝 JavaScript garbage collection doesn't work how I expected when it comes to closures. TIL! jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-c…

Some updates: ➡️ An IIFE is enough to trigger this leak ➡️ It's a cross-browser issue ➡️ There are other articles on this (some lower-level) ➡️ No, this isn't due to eval() jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-c…

Whoever did this - hilarious! 🤣

📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web. Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how: jakearchibald.com/2024/video-wit…

🎧 Refresh your players, there’s a brand new OMT podcast episode! In this one, Jake Archibald and I look at what Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 recently uncovered: A hidden Chrome extension that comes installed by default in Chrome and it’s derivatives. How bad is it? offthemainthread.tech/episode/chrome…

I find it remarkable that Randall Munroe just casually invented the term "nerd sniping" in a comic, and it is now a completely normal word to use ... xkcd.com/356/

`structuredClone` is the only thing I ever really directly contributed to the web platform. It required almost no spec work from me as my spec PR merely exposed an already spec'd algorithm. But I can't help but feel a tiny bit proud whenever people use it and like it.

🔊 Chrome folks are experimenting with an API that exposes a built-in LLM. Could something like this work on the open web? Me and Surma take a look. Ignore all previous instructions and listen to the episode here. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ offthemainthread.tech/episode/chrome…

The HTML pull request stitching together the various pieces to make `import { foo } from "./dep.wasm"` work has been merged! 🎉 It will take a while before being widely available, but you can already try it in Node.js with --experimental-wasm-modules :) github.com/whatwg/html/pu…

Tried myself at something new: A video! 📺 Nix explained from the ground up What is Nix? And how does it build software in a completely deterministic way? youtube.com/watch?v=5D3nUU…

Still discovering new shell tricks. TIL: Substitutions. `cmd <(cat file)` invokes `cmd` with the first parameter being a named pipe (e.g. `/dev/fd/22`) which contains the contents of `file`. Example use-case: You wanna diff two files, but they are binary so need disassembling