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Hello, PNG Only 2 formats that support transparent on the web is GIF and PNG. GIF is out of the option with its limited 256 colors. So how does PNG works, how can we hand write a PNG file. This is exactly that.

Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond Multi player game is a distributed systems where they cannot wait for an acknolwedge write of the slowest node in the clusters. This artcile explains the design architecture, implementation, and some of the lessons learned creating the multiplayer (networking) code for the Age of Empires 1 & 2 games; and discusses the current and future networking...

How I ruined my SEO In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened? Somehow I ruined my SEO. Don’t be me. I’ll tell you what I got up to and hopefully you can avoid doing the same.

The truth about CSS selector performance It’s likely faster for the browser engine to match just .link than it is to match this longer .wrapper .section .title .link selector. There are just fewer things to check. Turning not quite in practice.

Fairness in multi-tenant system Multi tenant system is usually cheaper because they have higher resource utilization leads to less server. But in multi tenancy system, an increas load on a client may affect other. In this article we look at How AWS approach this problem with rate limiting.

Internet Transport Protocols, Part I: Reliable Transports Most people who use the Internet just have some vague idea that it carries data from point A to point B (famously, through a series of tubes). Even people who regularly work on Internet systems tend to work with it through many layers of abstraction, without a clear understanding of the infrastructure components that make it work....

Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node.js App It’s a very interesting walk through of fixing memory leaks in a web app. Find leads, come up with theories, test it, rinse and repeat

Why Not document.write()? why document.write() is so harmful? Actually not that harmful but only in a few specific condition

No Start Menu for You What do you do if it takes a minute to launch NotePad on window? On a 32GB RAM, SSD laptop. In general if you want to understand why your computer is performing badly you need to record and analyze a trace. However if you want to see if you are hitting a particular problem then there are easier steps...

rough-notation Create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page. Very interesting to use this to add some nice animation when user finished an action.

sorcery Magical Authentication for Rails. Supports ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Mongoid and MongoMapper. Despite the name, there is no magic at all. Just code that you use inside your controller

xilem An experimental Rust native UI framework, still small enough and straight forward to read and understand the code and the proceess of building a UI framework. For a production ready, more feature set, check out dioxus, a friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more

rete.js Rete is a modular framework for visual programming. Rete allows you to create node-based editor directly in the browser. You can define nodes and workers that allow users to create instructions for processing data in your editor without a single line of code

Sleuth an open-core enterprise search tool that allows organizations to search text from various workspace apps such as Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and Confluence.

What happens when you open a terminal and enter ‘ls’ This could be the equivalent of the in famous “what happen when you type an address into the browser”, but for terminal which we interact on a daily basis but may forgot or not having a full understand of its architecture.