🏖️ Hello! Only a fast observe to say that we’re taking subsequent week off for a quick summer time break. We’ll be again with our subsequent subject on August 15. |
How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Course of — As soon as, in the event you wished Google to index your content material, it wanted to be proper within the HTML and never dynamically rendered with JavaScript. Issues have modified, however how a lot? MERJ and Vercel analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches in an try and empirically demystify Google’s strategy. Zecchini, Moore, Siddle, Ubl (Vercel) |
Rubbish Assortment and Closures — When three JavaScript specialists get collectively and all be taught one thing new about how JavaScript works after they encounter a reminiscence leak, it pays to hear. An fascinating quirk to remember of. Jake Archibald |
Tracing: Frontend Points with Backend Options — As Builders, we regularly hear complaints like, “This web page is taking too lengthy to load. It’s a front-end subject. Repair it.” However what if the issue isn’t on the entrance finish? How do you hint points by your stack? Watch the step-by-step information. Sentry |
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Benchmarking AWS Lambda Chilly Begins Throughout JS Runtimes — It’s from the Deno group so it might not be shocking that Deno was quickest, however they share their methodology and outcomes for Deno, Node, Bun and AWS’s managed Node runtime they usually weren’t all that far aside. Zinkovsky and Jiang (Deno) |
☎︎ Worldwide Phone Enter — A really mature choice that gives all of the trimmings you’d count on: accessibility, sort definitions, flags, automated nation choice, automated formatting, and extra. GitHub repo. Jack O’Connor |
JS-PyTorch: A PyTorch-Like Library for JavaScript — Just lately renamed from JS-Torch, this brings a number of the magic from Python’s well-liked PyTorch library to JavaScript for coaching and testing neural networks specifically. We linked to it earlier this yr, however it has added GPU assist due to GPU.js. Eduardo Leao |
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p5.js is a well-liked ‘artistic coding’ library that takes lots of inspiration from Processing. p5 makes it straightforward to create digital artwork and interactive experiences with out lots of boilerplate (try how easy this ‘smoke particles’ demo is, for instance). p5.js v1.10.0 has simply landed, however the purpose I wished to say it’s due to how a lot enjoyable I’ve had throwing AI generated code at the web p5 editor, and when you have entry to instruments like ChatGPT, you are able to do it too. For instance, give ChatGPT a immediate like:
Copy and paste the outcome into the editor, and: |
It isn’t excellent, however it’s fairly good for a primary strive (and straightforward to ‘repair’ by hand). Totally different LLMs take completely completely different approaches. Contemplate what Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 gave me, for instance: |
Eeek.. Nicely, anyway, there’s lots of enjoyable available, and you may immediate LLMs to enhance the outcomes or customise issues as you want. Have some enjoyable with it, it is fairly cool what you possibly can produce. We’re taking every week off now, however shall be again on August 15! |