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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
New View Transition Stuff
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jake goes through some of the newer features of the View Transition API, along with some vaguer ideas that are planned for the future...
TC39 Roundup Drama Edition Part II: JS0 and JSSugar
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma talks about a presenation-maybe-soon-to-be-a-proposal "JS0", which explores the idea of splitting JavaScript into two specifica...
TC39 Roundup Drama Edition Part I: Shared Structs
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma talks about the Stage 2 proposal "JavaScript Struct", which introduces fixed-layout objects and the ability to share them betwe...
More build tools: Nix
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After talking about Bazel in one of our previous episodes, we are now looking at Nix, a build system that has been getting increasing attention lately...
The new stylable select element
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're finally getting a element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the g...
Chrome's new LLM AI API OMG
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chrome is experimenting with exposing an LLM to the web platform. Jake and Surma dig into how the API works, and whether something like this could wor...
Chrome's secretly installed extensions
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Luca found a hidden Chrome extension that is installed by default in Chrome and most Chromium derivatives. Surma and Jake dig into what this extensio...
Are web components worth it?
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about web components. Why they were invented, what they're useful for, and how they would improve. Resources: Su...
Why Source Maps don't always work
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma shares with Jake all the things he learned reading up on source maps and DWARF. Resources: Jake's Jericho triangle source-map-...
Putting React In The Browser
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about the complexities of adding common framework patterns into the web platform, and work that has been done on ...
Canvas-based Web Apps
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma talks about web apps that (partly) abandon the DOM and use canvas instead, to take rendering matters into their own hands. Figm...
The Apple PWA Ban
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jake chats about the latest EU ruling that requires Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS, and how Apple is reacting to it. Res...
TC39 Roundup and Bevy's ECS
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma shares what he learned while getting started with the Bevy Game engine, Entity Component Systems and why they might be useful f...
The Big Build Bool Bonanaza II
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jake investigates whether the existence of build tools is a symptom of the web being underpowered, or if they are part of the solutio...
WebGPU and Browser Ideologies
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Surma talks about the "GPU" in "WebGPU" and how this new web standard makes programming for the GPU more accessible. Jake talks about...
From the Archive — Changing jobs, Deno, and optimizing animations
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
(This is an episode from our previous podcast HTTP 203, originally published on June 29th, 2022) In this episode: - Surma changed jobs. - The Shopify ...