I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
Update: news sites have pulled the video now, confirming parts of it were AI generated.
Today I Learned
First stage of the "AI age" was getting inference costs down to "too cheap to meter".
Seeing which files are being processed by linter tools is surprisingly difficult. A common use case is when you're trying to debug why your linter is taking ages, and you discover it's trying to lint bundled JS files.
I was looking for a simple universal JS lib that could handle OpenAI/Anthropic/Google responses without having to install each client lib. Considering all these do is JSON requests, those client libs are actually quite big - for example, Op
I spent a day learning about CSS-in-JS solutions for SolidJS. I looked for performant/compile-time solutions. Quick summary:
Today I learned: not yet a full post, just sharing what I learned
In which I try to understand how browsers and Cloudflare choose which server to use
2k GitHub Stars, 300 req/sec, 2 TB per day
MapHub's UI has remained largely consistent since I launched it eight years ago, with a prominent "Save" button visible in the top-right corner of the map. It turns orange when a save is needed.
Looking at Auth providers from a software developer's perspective.
Work notes on recreating the iPhone 13 wallpaper area light effect in GLSL shaders, from Mitsuba reference renders to an analytic rectangle area light.