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An ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler
Using AI to puppeteer a website
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An ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler

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Porffor compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries with major perf and size benefits.

Midscene.js for writing UI Automation Tests

WES'S FIND!

A neat way to use AI to puppeteer a website. Zack Jackson, an upcoming guest who works at ByteDance, put us onto this.

Hooks into puppeteer/playwright, or control any website via the chrome extension.

Kinda neat - not sure I'd use it for UI testing, but I can really these this being helpful to control websites without good selectors.

Check Wes' demo on the Syntax website.

Stunning CSS3 and JS Animations

Kaitlin's link

If your creative bucket is ever a little empty, this will fill it up - UI elements, scroll triggered animations, SVG and loads more

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The State of Frontend

Dave Kiss

@davekiss

As someone who has built (and attempted to maintain) a video pipeline in this past…

It's not immediately apparent, but going down this DIY path does not lead to fun and rainbows

Never again https://twitter.com/steve_tenuto/status/1854919704483434763

Steve Tenuto

@steve_tenuto

We served over 15 terabytes of 4K video last month–and paid just $2.18 for it! 💸 Here’s how we do it (including the script we use): ⬇️

1:58 PM • Nov 8, 2024

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Don’t build your own Video Pipeline

Dave Kiss, a dev at Mux, details all the pain that goes into building your own video pipeline. Seems like one of those easy things from a high level..
- WB

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