Log
What I've been reading and find interesting.
Fizz Buzz with Cosines
Tuck this one away for the next time you’re asked FizzBuzz in an interview.
Importing Node modules from BitTorrent
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
Now we can build tabbed interfaces using only HTML and CSS by combining the
<details> element with CSS Grid and Subgrid with full accessibility.
Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
A fascinating technical deep-dive into why LLMs consistently believe a seahorse emoji exists (it doesn’t) and how they construct internal representations that lead to this persistent hallucination.
Immich - Cursed knowledge
A delightful collection of technical quirks and unexpected behaviors typically only gained through experience.
Creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS
The web platform keeps gaining more and more native features for common patterns that were previously manually implemented. This is a welcome addition!
llama.ttf
Today I learned that fonts can include arbitrary logic in web assembly. In this case, llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
Breaking Down the 35mm Website
Announcing Rolldown-Vite
This is super exciting! Vite will soon replace rollup with VoidZero’s rolldown, and esbuild becomes an optional dependency.