2025-08-27

Getting all sorts of ideas for unnecessarily complex projects that I don’t have time to implement.

Browser tab bankruptcy

corrode.dev/dev/learn/

learning resources for Rust

CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design

one page, many layouts; always been a huge factor in why I avoid utility class frameworks for my CSS

Polyphony - Codeberg.org

“Free, open source, federated communications software, compatible with the Discord API and built with polyproto, Rust and love.”

The Sidebar: Every Layout

thinking about new visual designs for the site

Reading Node Weekly

Node Weekly Issue 591: August 26, 2025

Porffor JS runtime

Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda

Compile your JavaScript to tiny WASM files that run fast and have almost no warmup needed as AWS Lambdas. Was all excited until I hit this part:

What’s the trade-off? You have to re-invent the JS engine (and runtime) so it is still very early: limited JS support and currently no good I/O or Node compat (yet). But, we can use these tiny fast native binaries on Lambda!

That’s a heck of a trade-off. Still. Worth keeping an eye on the project if you’re heavily into serverless JS.

Everything you know about AWS is wrong

I already assumed this was true. Nice to have it spelled out by Corey Quinn, who I trust to fill my head with useful trivia about AWS.

AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong - Last Week in AWS Blog