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Either Claude van Code or Chad McGpt.

norskeldon Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

Given this is from Vercel and most likely vibe coded (hopefully not), I wonder how many zero-day vulnerabilities will be there... :^)

norskeldon Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick

APL for talking to LLM when? Also, this reminded me of that episode from The Office where Kevin started talking like a caveman to make communication efficient.

norskeldon Cloudflare was down

Damn, I wish CloudFlare being down also affected local development, so I could take a break from doing frontend… :'(

norskeldon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

I don't think this is the case with CloudFlare, but for every recent GitHub outage or performance issue... oh boy, I blame the clankers!

norskeldon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

This wild `unwrap()` kinda took me aback as well. Someone really believed in themselves writing this. :)

norskeldon Helium Browser

While I agree that monopolies suck, I _absolutely hate_ having to waste my time adjusting styles and writing workaround code just to make everything look and work consistently in a multitude of browsers. This is one of the reasons — among a hundred others — that I grew to somewhat hate front-end, doubly so with the rise of mobile devices. And the more rendering engines we have, the more developers will have to fight frustrating battles with inconsistencies and quirks.

norskeldon Vibe coding cleanup as a service

Janitor Engineers [0] are already a thing? Damn. Also, all links in this article starting from the "Why AI code fails at scale" section are dead for some reason, even though it was written only 5 days ago. That raises some questions...

EDIT: Not trying to offend anyone with this [0], I've actually had the same half-joking retirement plan since the dawn of vibe coding, to become an "all-organic-code" consultant who untangles and cleans up AI-generated mess.

norskeldon Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

It also has catalogs feature for defining versions or version ranges as reusable constants that you can reference in workspace packages. It was almost the only reason (besides speed) I switched a year ago from npm and never looked back.

norskeldon I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

As a TypeScript developer experienced in type-level acrobatics, this looks just fine...

norskeldon Don't animate height

Personally, I'd be annoyed by both the resource-consuming animations and the blurry GIFs/canvas. Infisical does use the latter (canvas) for icons in their UI, and I somewhat hate it. I'd rather look at crisp, but static icons.

norskeldon No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith (2024)

Oh no, Keith was the only thing I liked about C++!

norskeldon The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

Very tangential, but I couldn't help but remember Crust [1]. This tsoding madlad even wrote a B compiler [2] using these... rules. Or lack thereof?

[1]: https://github.com/tsoding/Crust

[2]: https://github.com/tsoding/b

norskeldon Strategies for Fast Lexers

Ah, yes, that's totally fair. In case of JS (in browsers) it's sort of a big deal, I suppose, even if scripts being loaded are not render-blocking: the faster you lex and parse source files, the faster page becomes interactive.

P.S. I absolutely loved "Crafting Interpreters" — thank you so much for writing it!

norskeldon Reflections on OpenAI

You should believe in all of them. Just spray and pray!

norskeldon Strategies for Fast Lexers

Is lexing ever a bottleneck though? Even if you push for lexing and parsing 10M lines/second [1], I'd argue that semantic analysis and codegen (for AOT-compiled languages) will dominate the timings.

That said, there's no reason not to squeeze every bit of performance out of it!

[1]: In this talk about the Carbon language, Chandler Carruth shows and explains some goals/challenges regarding performance: https://youtu.be/ZI198eFghJk?t=1462

norskeldon Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)

Looking at the source code of the code-editor [1], it seems to be embedding https://onecompiler.com via the iframe and delegating code compilation and execution to it. So I guess it's a question to onecompiler, whether they sanitize input or not. :)

[1]: https://github.com/shikaan/shikaan.github.io/blob/main/_incl...

norskeldon Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

Well, many people have complained about this very issue, and it was actually from this [1] discussion that I learned that Firefox handles big PRs just fine. No amount of jumping through hoops, including creating a new profile, helped to make it work in Chrome.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341

norskeldon Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

Speaking of 'works best in Firefox'... I mainly use Chrome (kinda have to), and it's practically impossible to use it for reviewing big GitHub PRs with many files changed (UI just freezes), but everything's perfectly fine in Firefox!

norskeldon New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Ha-ha, thanks, I couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that intro. As for them taking their time... Well, yes, it's all rather sad, but I personally came to terms long ago with the snail's pace of JS proposals rolling out. And after all, working with dates and time zones is a rather complex matter in itself, so no judgment here.

I've had to develop interfaces built entirely around date and time operations, and it was painful not so much because of the awful and broken date parsing in JS (although it definitely doesn't help), but rather because of the inherent complexity of how we represent calendar dates and times, and how we build abstractions around these representations. Definitely NOT looking forward to developing that booking system at work...

norskeldon New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Scored 17/28. Thank you, this is absolutely cursed! It's probably a good time to go and check out the Temporal stuff (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...).

norskeldon Writing toy software is a joy

This. I was skeptical at first, but it is indeed good at searching and answering questions without! That said, I still have to double-check results for niche queries or about stuff that is relatively new. Sometimes, the "sources" for the answers are just someone's opinions — unsubstantiated by any facts — on an old Reddit post that's only tangentially related to the topic. And sometimes, you simply know that manual search and digging through SO answers yourself will yield better results. At this point I've developed a gut feeling that helps me decide whether to prompt Perplexity or just g**gle it.

norskeldon Build your own Siri locally and on-device

This summary-like style — with heavy formatting and every (!) paragraph as a bulleted list — drives me nuts tbqh. Especially in lengthy texts, it just looks... noisy, bland, and sometimes confusing.

norskeldon Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports

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  tariff.set({
    "numpy": -100
  })

norskeldon Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Turned off? How nice of them. Chrome with the last update simply removed 4 extensions I was using, including uBlock.

norskeldon Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers

TypeScript's type system is Turing complete, so you can not only do that, but also some insane stuff like:

- A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type system (https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql)

- Chess implemented entirely in TypeScript (and Rust) type systems (https://github.com/Dragon-Hatcher/type-system-chess)

- Lambda calculus in TypeScript type system (https://ayazhafiz.com/articles/21/typescript-type-system-lam...)

norskeldon 1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community

When it comes to custom hash tables, I always remember this video [0] by Strager about implementing the perfect hash table and hash function. Fascinating insights and perf hints.

[0]: https://youtu.be/DMQ_HcNSOAI

norskeldon Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.

Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...