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Week Summary
Technology
  • Earth has captured a temporary 'second moon,' a small asteroid named 2024 PT5, which will orbit until November 2024.
  • Research indicates that larger AI chatbots are increasingly prone to generating incorrect answers, raising concerns about their reliability.
  • Meta's Chief Technical Officer discussed advancements in AR and VR technologies, particularly focusing on the Orion AR glasses.
  • The author reflects on their experience with Rust, proposing several changes to improve the language's usability and safety features.
  • The Tor Project and Tails OS have merged to enhance their efforts in promoting online anonymity and privacy.
  • OpenAI is undergoing leadership changes, with key executives departing amid discussions about restructuring and the company's future direction.
  • Git-absorb
  • The concept of critical mass explains how significant changes occur when a threshold of acceptance is reached, impacting technology and society.
  • WordPress.org has banned WP Engine from accessing its resources due to ongoing legal disputes, raising concerns about security for WP Engine customers.
  • PostgreSQL 17
  • Hotwire Native is a web-first framework that simplifies mobile app development, allowing developers to reuse HTML and CSS across platforms.
  • Radian Aerospace is progressing on a reusable space plane, completing ground tests and aiming for full-scale flights by 2028.
  • A groundbreaking diabetes treatment using reprogrammed stem cells has enabled a patient to produce insulin independently for over a year.
  • Apple is developing a new home accessory that combines features of the iPad, Apple TV, and HomePod, expected to launch in 2025.
  • SpaceX's Starlink service is set to surpass 4 million subscribers, reflecting rapid growth and significant revenue projections.
  • TinyJS is a lightweight JavaScript library that simplifies dynamic HTML element creation and DOM manipulation for developers.
  • Increased internet speeds haven't improved website user experience due to bloated designs and performance issues.

    Despite the increase in internet speeds, the user experience on many websites has not proportionally improved due to bloated websites and performance issues. Websites designed to load static content all at once remain the most accessible universally and often outperform all other websites. Modern websites that prioritize complex features over basic usability like scrolling and search are often slower than average.

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    Wednesday, April 17, 2024
  • Exploring how backend issues can affect LCP scores negatively.

    A poor Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score can often be caused by backend issues. While tools like Page Speed Insights and Google Lighthouse are helpful for frontend analysis, tracing user journeys and examining spans help uncover more issues. By doing so, developers can pinpoint problematic database queries or other backend operations that contribute to slow LCP scores.

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    LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
  • The New York Times sees performance boost with React 18 upgrade.

    The New York Times upgraded its React version, which brought some unexpected challenges. The upgrade required solving challenges with existing embedded interactives and managing script loading order. However, the result of the upgrade was immediately better performance. For example, its INP scores in the p75 range dropped by roughly 30% across the entire site.

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  • Parallel DOM enhances web app performance by parallelizing heavy DOM operations.

    Parallel DOM makes your web apps faster by parallelizing away heavy DOM operations.

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  • Notion enhances browser performance by 20% using SQLite for client-side caching, improving page navigation speeds.

    Notion recently improved its browser performance by using SQLite for client-side caching. This led to a 20% increase in page navigation speeds through a SharedWorker architecture to manage concurrency and prevent database corruption. SQLite was implemented using WebAssembly for local data storage and offline functionality. In this post, the team at Notion goes through challenges they faced with slow disk reads and initial page load times.

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  • Chrome DevTools introduces new features for optimizing web performance.

    The new Performance Panel features in Chrome DevTools provide detailed insights and tools for optimizing Core Web Vitals and overall web performance. This tutorial explains how to access and configure these features. It also goes over how to interpret lab and field data, along with practical tips for fixing LCP, CLS, and INP issues using the new Performance Panel features.

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Month Summary
Technology
  • OpenAI is considering a new subscription model for its upcoming AI product, Strawberry, while also restructuring for better financial backing.
  • Telegram founder
  • The startup landscape is shifting towards more tech-intensive ventures, with a focus on specialized research and higher capital requirements.
  • Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft successfully completed its second flight, testing new systems for future supersonic travel.
  • announced the uncrewed return of Boeing's Starliner, with future crewed missions planned for 2025.
  • OpenAI's SearchGPT aims to compete with Google Search by providing AI-driven information retrieval, though it currently faces accuracy issues.
  • Tesla is preparing to unveil its autonomous robotaxi technology at an event in Los Angeles, indicating ongoing challenges in achieving full autonomy.
  • The US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia for potential antitrust violations related to its AI chip market dominance.
  • Apple plans to use OLED screens in all iPhone 16 models, moving away from Japanese suppliers and introducing new AI features.
  • Amazon S3 has introduced conditional writes to prevent overwriting existing objects, simplifying data updates for developers.
  • Chinese scientists have developed a hydrogel that shows promise in treating osteoarthritis by restoring cartilage lubrication.
  • Nvidia's CEO is working to position the Nvidia as a comprehensive provider for data center needs, amidst growing competition from AMD and Intel.
  • OpenAI
  • Nvidia Blackwell
  • Amazon is set to release a revamped Alexa voice assistant in October, powered by AI models from Anthropic's Claude, and will be offered as a paid subscription service.