Daniel Barta

✍️ How modern browsers work addyo.substack.com/p/how-modern... - my write-up on browser internals for web developers

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Introducing Voxtral WebGPU: State-of-the-art audio transcription directly in your browser! 🤯 🗣️ Transcribe videos, meeting notes, songs and more 🔐 Runs on-device, meaning no data is sent to a server 🌎 Multilingual (8 languages) 🤗 Completely free (forever) & open source

let's say you've got a canvas that has things on it and you want those things to be in front of other things or behind them 🔊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo-m...

Fave Cursor workflow at the moment is get Claude to write feature implementation plans into a markdown document and update it as we go. Breaks features down into phases with checklists, notes, relevant file lists. Essentially acts as read/write memory to prevent chat context from getting too long.

Introducing TanStack DB @thruflo.com with a great presentation introducing a new front end @tanstack.com library to help progressively adopt sync in any app, with any backend.

Too much noise over everything-AI makes it hard to genuinely evaluate MCP. Before I connect all my sensitive data, what are the security implications of MCP? What should I look out for? Beyond naturally querying my database, which is super cool, what are the killer use cases for devs?

Announcing the Local-First Landscape A comprehensive guide to help developers choose the right tools for building local-first applications. localfirst.fm/landscape

After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library: 🧩 New modular API ⚡️ Highly performant 🖱️ Scroll-linked animations 🫵 Draggables ↔️ Responsive ✨ Additive animations 🪽 WAAPI support And so much more! Check out the new website animejs.com!

Using AI in software development is not about writing more code faster - it's about building better software. I wrote a free ~60m read on leading effective teams through the age of GenAI: bit.ly/leet-ai ✍️

The more I learn of C and the FFmpeg source code the more I appreciate the absence of OOP.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

🛠️ ✍️ New Interactive Article: CSS Relative Colors I explored how CSS relative colors work, the problem they solve, along with many practical examples. ishadeed.com/article/css-...

TIL: Cookie banners → github.com/pdubroy/til... (Please *don't* tell me your opinion on the EU cookie directive.)

"10 Google engineering practices your team can adopt" Free to read: addyo.substack.com/p/applied-so... My new post breaks down our software engineering practices into actionable steps you can implement in your own team. From smaller teams to larger orgs, there are key takeaways here for everyone.

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

Wild: Talked with a startup founder who is pretty sure an SWE applicant they almost hired could have been a NK state-sponsored actor. Aced the interviews, but (in hindsight) used an AI filter. Last round interview focused on non-tech was too weird and they got suspicious.

We did it! Kokoro TTS (v1.0) can now run 100% locally in your browser w/ WebGPU acceleration. Real-time text-to-speech without a server. ⚡️ Generate 10 seconds of speech in ~1 second for $0. What will you build? 🔥

WebAssembly as an ecosystem for programming languages 2ality.com/2025/01/weba... #2ality

New in Chrome DevTools: Skip irrelevant scripts in the Flame Chart! Debugging is faster and more actionable 🙏

📢 Scaling multithreaded #WebAssembly applications with mimalloc and WasmFS, by @kripken.com: web.dev/articles/sca.... If you have a multithreaded #Wasm application that does lots of allocations or uses files, then you may benefit greatly by using WasmFS and/or mimalloc.

The State of WebAssembly 2024—2025 ⤵️ platform.uno/blog/state-o... #webassembly #wasm