Thursday, September 4, 2025

Web

A new Three.js shader tutorial recreates the premium holographic effect of foil stickers by approximating iridescence with sine-based waves and generating foil flakes using procedural noise. The step-by-step guide covers vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and realistic lighting to produce a sparkling look that simulates collectible stickers in real-time.

Shuffle is an online tool providing a comprehensive suite of editors and tools for building UI components, supporting over 13,000 pre-built components from top libraries like Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and Material-UI. The platform features AI-fueled chat support, SVG pattern generators, and integrates with popular front-end frameworks like React and more.

Tufte CSS is a styling framework for web articles inspired by Edward Tufte's design principles, emphasizing simplicity and typography. Users copy `tufte.css` and a font directory into their project, linking it to their HTML document's head block. It provides guidelines for organizing sections, text styling, and more, aiming to implement Tufte's ideas online.

A new technical article emphasizes the importance of selecting the right API communication protocol, highlighting HTTP's limitations and alternative options like WebSocket, gRPC, and others. The article provides clear explanations and examples to help developers understand these concepts, including the benefits of low-latency, bi-directional communication and high-performance data transfer. It concludes by emphasizing the need for developers to choose the optimal protocol based on application requirements.

A summarization pipeline can be created using Model Hub and NLP library by mapping individual documents into summaries, collapsing summaries to reduce token count, and producing a single consolidated final summary through various functions including splitSummariesByTokenLimit, collapseSummaries, checkShouldCollapse, and reduceSummariesBatch.

JavaScript's BigInt primitive offers guaranteed integer overflow protection but has drawbacks due to its design, including prohibited mixed number expressions, limited Math functions and JSON serialization support, and poor performance. Manual conversions between BigInt and Number are inconvenient, prompting proposals for a math standard library and improved handling in key areas like JSON parsing.

The BootstrapSearch library enhances bootstrap-5-autocomplete with features like AJAX support, customizable label/value mapping, and keyboard navigation. It provides examples for local data search, AJAX search, and multi-select functionality, along with an API reference and TODO list for contributing to the project, offering a flexible solution for users.

Trigger.dev and Anchor Browser are integrated to automate Broadway ticket deals on the TDF website. Trigger.dev handles scheduling, code execution, logging, and state management, while Anchor Browser automates browser tasks with security and reliability. The system provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the project, tackling errors and edge cases with ease.

Browsers throttle JavaScript timers to prevent abuse and protect user battery life. Despite this, new APIs like `setImmediate`, Promises, and `scheduler.postTask` offer more control over task scheduling. A recent experiment found these options roughly equivalent to `setTimeout`, but with variations between browsers, sparking debate on "interventions" to balance developer freedom and security.