January 2023

What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?

What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?

lmorchard starred libsql/libsql

lmorchard starred vercel/pkg

Today we're continuing that mission with the announcement of the BlueSCSI v2!

The UI is served over HTTP directly from the binary using Go’s fantastic http.FileServer implementation from the standard library. Sometime around February 2021 was the Go 1.16 release, which came with native embedding of files into Go binaries. Flipt quickly took advantage of this feature for bundling the static UI assets directly into the binary. Go has a handy wrapping function that adapts the embed.FS into the required http.FileSystem interface to integrate it seamlessly into an http.Server. You can find the current (v1.16.0) embed directive in Flipt here.

Sharing just 64kB of SRAM between an Amiga and a Raspberry Pi, this clever FPGA board provides a way to get a classic computer back online.

lmorchard starred cloudflare/wildebeest

lmorchard starred lmorchard/masto-recall

This makes it possible to insert JSON straight into SQLite and then have it extract data and index them, i.e. you can treat SQLite as a document database. This has been possible with PostgreSQL and obviously is what something like Elastic provides but having it available in an embedded database is very nice for lightweight stuff.

Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG <text> element and use that as the favicon.

Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG element and use that as the favicon.

A tree view (collapsible list) can be created using only HTML and CSS, without the need for JavaScript. Accessibility software will see the tree view as lists nested inside disclosure widgets, and the standard keyboard interaction is supported automatically.

A tree view (collapsible list) can be created using only HTML and CSS, without the need for JavaScript. Accessibility software will see the tree view as lists nested inside disclosure widgets, and the standard keyboard interaction is supported automatically.

Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!

Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!