Recent posts
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Case study: Moving a Three.js-based WebXR app off-main-thread
Keeping the frame rate stable is vital for virtual reality applications. Off-main-thread architecture can help ensure that the frames keep shipping.
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Streams for reactive programming
Can you use WHATWG Streams for reactive programming? It seems so. But is it a good idea?
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React + Redux + Comlink = Off-main-thread
Redux is state management. State management belongs off the main thread.
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Is postMessage slow?
No, not really. (It depends.)
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When should you be using Web Workers?
You should always use Web Workers. And in our current landscape of frameworks it’s virtually impossible.
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Recent experiments
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WhatWG Stream Visualizer
A visual “interface” for WhatWG streams.
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Vinylizer
Renders images as a spiral with varying wobblyness (technical term), so it looks a bit like a vinyl record.
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Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
A reactive UI that creates the Discrete Cosine Transform of a given image, removes some data and then applies the reverese DCT to show the visual artifacts.
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Workerized Mandelbrot with SABs
This experiment is a real-time, interactive Mandelbrot renderer using SharedArrayBuffers, Atomics and Web Workers.
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