Hack Something Wonderful

A portal to timeless software hacking. Inspired by Matter's Read Something Wonderful.

• https://asahilinux.org/2023/03/road-to-vulkan/
• https://web.dev/articles/ps-on-the-web
• https://medium.com/@addyosmani/photoshop-is-now-on-the-web-38d70954365a
• https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-felt-is-making-browsers-make/
• https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/rendering-like-butter-a-confluence-whiteboards-story
• https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figma-draws-inspiration-from-the-gaming-world/
• https://mofi.loud.red/blog/wasm-and-workers
• https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-how-modyfi-is-building-with/
• https://graphite.rs/blog/distributed-computing-in-the-graphene-runtime/
• https://motherduck.com/blog/announcing-motherduck-duckdb-in-the-cloud/
• https://www.raycast.com/blog/how-raycast-api-extensions-work
• https://tailscale.com/blog/2021-06-taildrop-was-easy/
• https://vdocuments.mx/monitoring-the-execution-of-space-craft-flight-software.html
• https://zed.dev/blog/videogame
• https://zed.dev/blog/crdts
• https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
• https://www.figma.com/blog/keeping-figma-fast/
• https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users
• https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages
• https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-unikernels-open-source/
• https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed-database-in-the-browser/
• https://medium.com/disney-streaming/introducing-the-disney-application-development-kit-adk-ad85ca139073
• https://duckdb.org/2021/10/29/duckdb-wasm.html#looks-like-arrow-to-me
• https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration
• https://interconnected.org/more/2023/partykit/npcs.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfkX_ahl94
• https://blog.replay.io/our-cloud-development-environment-journey
• https://blog.replay.io/how-to-build-a-time-machine
• https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchestrator/
• https://medium.com/replay-io/recording-and-replaying-d6102afee273
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE
• https://svelte.dev/blog/frameworks-without-the-framework
• https://retool.com/visual-basic/
• https://fiberplane.com/blog/why-we-chose-jsonnet-over-webassembly
• https://laplab.me/posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/
• https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds
• https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/interoperability-swifts-super-power
• https://fly.io/blog/rethinking-serverless-with-flame/
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runtime/
• https://blog.gregbrockman.com/system-design-stripe-capture-the-flag
• https://cprimozic.net/blog/building-a-signal-analyzer-with-modern-web-tech/
• https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion
• https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works
• https://redpanda.com/blog/wasm-architecture
• https://duckdb.org/2021/10/29/duckdb-wasm.html

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