Have you ever wanted to run a program in some device without needing to follow a complicated, possibly slow build process? In many cases it can be simpler to use...

Let's talk about tree-shaking!But first, I need to talk about WebAssembly's dirty secret: despite the hype, WebAssembly has had limited success on the web.There is Photoshop, which does appear to...

Introduction I think it's quite well known that on a 64-bit system, the maximum bit-width of a virtual address is somewhat lower (commonly 48-bits). This gives an opportunity to repurpose...

Five years ago today was special; I flew from Bihar to New Delhi and then to Germany. Landing in Munich felt like entering a wonderland, covered in snow from the...

The Effects of Nuclear Maths Carrying on Eric's work on “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” - with native MathML. As I have explained a few times since first writing about...

Chrome 120 was released last week and in this version, we got the CSS Media Query for scripting support. Simply, this media query allows you to test whether scripting language...

I've been digging around on web platform status pages to see what's come out and what's planned for web developers. You can take the girl out of browser work but...

A few days ago was the 30th anniversary of the first time I wrote an HTML document.  Back in 1993, I took a Usenet posting of the “Incomplete Mystery Science...

Captain, status report: I’m down here in a jeffries tube, poking at V8’s garbage collector. However, despite working on other areas of the project recently, V8 is now so large...

If you’ve been paying attention to the evolution of the Linux gaming ecosystem in recent years, including the release of the Steam Deck and the new Steam Deck OLED, it’s...

Today, a followup to yesterday’s note with some more details on V8’s new young-generation implementation, minor mark-sweep or MinorMS.A caveat again: these observations are just from reading the code; I...

Vulkan Video encoder in GStreamer # During the last months of 2023, we, at Igalia, decided to focus on the latest provisional specs proposed by the Vulkan Video Khronos TSG...