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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - eslint

Published: 5 February 2023
Tags: javascript, optimization, typescript

Marvin Hagemeister discusses the performance of eslint and how it can be improved.
Some highlights:

• "Linting is the act of finding patterns in code that could lead to mistakes or ensure a consistent reading experience"
• Lots of potential for time savings in their selector engine and AST conversion process
• A perfect linter written in JS would be able to hit sub-second run times

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Large Language Model: world models or surface statistics?

Published: 21 January 2023
Tags: machine learning

Kenneth Li explores large language models (LLMs) and how they are trained.
Some highlights:

• They are trained by playing a guess-the-next-word game with itself over and over again
• If it makes it correctly, it will update its parameters to reinforce its confidence; otherwise, it will learn from the error and give a better guess next time
• The article argues that it is difficult to know if the models are merely memorizing training data

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Building A Conferencing App With WebRTC: P2P, SFU, or MCU

Published: 11 October 2022
Tags: networking, sponsored, web

Stream presents a number of different approaches to building a conferencing app.
Some highlights:

• "Video conference calling, in particular, is a difficult use-case to build for since there are various participants involved and multiple architectures that developers can use to build to communicate between them"
• Looks at peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and how it can be used
• Also covers Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) and Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) networks

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Awesome Package Maintainer

Published: 10 January 2023
Tags: management, philosophy

Michael Vetter presents what it takes to be a good package maintainer.
Some highlights:

• Focuses on Linux packages (although should apply to Mac's homebrew as well)
• If you're going to maintain a package, you should probably be using it yourself
• Generally a good resource for anyone looking to publish/maintain distro packages

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