For any new followers since I last mentioned this: I am an amateur browserengine dev, currently with NLnet funding! Currently focusing on building a great TV experience "Haphaestus".

I strive to show the potential of a simpler JavaScript-free web to work on any conceivable device! Without sacrificing support for a myriad of written languages, or accessibility measures! Written in reusable Haskell.

And yes, I threw in Gemini support since that was trivial.

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Dependency Hell - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/dependency-hell/

It is trendy now to say "the more the merrier" regarding dependencies. My attitude is that there's a happy medium to persue, which differs project to project.

The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders - Willy R. Vasquez, Stephen Checkoway, & Hovav Shacham @ University of Texas at Austin & Oberlin College: https://wrv.github.io/h26forge.pdf

Frameworkless.JS - Mike Timofiiv: https://frameworkless.js.org/ (embedded YouTube course)

Sounds like a great introduction to what the web does natively, though I would add that browser support for the date input type has been improving. I know firsthand!

@icculus I've already got NLnet funding, but I'm working on my own browserengines in Haskell!

https://argonaut-constellation.org/
https://git.argonaut-constellation.org/~alcinnz

No-JS, & exploring the potential that brings! Modular so the pieces can be readily reused for other purposes like eReaders & office suites.

@ekaitz_zarraga If you at-import a stylesheet which at-imports additional ones, sure. Nothing the browser can do to optimize that, if you care about performance avoid it!

@ekaitz_zarraga To me this makes no difference, they both parse to the same thing in Haskell Stylist.

@ekaitz_zarraga

at-import would've been easier if I wasn't implementing my engine in Haskell, but if you're going to remotely fetch multiple stylesheets anyways I've got no complaint... Just if you're worried about performance please don't nest CSS imports!

P.S. You may want to combine at-import with Cascade Layers to avoid conflicts, there's syntax for that.

@ekaitz_zarraga Here's MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Cascade_layers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@layer

Design-wise CSS represents a design-negotiation between your device (represented by the useragent stylesheet), the reader, & the publisher. Though in fearing The Cascade (aforementioned weighting) & not showing an understanding of HTML, publishers are making it harder for the others to have their say.

So please, learn CSS Cascade Layers (which are available in browsers now, including mine) & HTML!

CSS is a fascinating language! Very straightforward to implement, even if a bit weird.

After lexing there's no need for backtracking, since its very prefix-heavy. Occasionally infix for media queries or math().

It degrades gracefully (unless you're targetting Dillo browser) so you shouldn't have to worry about whether browsers support any given feature.

Interpreting it involves little more than a filtered & weighted deduplication. With most of the optimizing going into filtering.

20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Justin Etheredge: https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
Simon Willison quoting it: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/19/justin-etheredge/

Personally having worked on DGGS I resonate with "12. People don't really want innovation".
Then again I'm skeptical about the concept of innovation.

I wonder, does anyone here know of a great explanation of how one might implement the C PreProcessor? That I could fold into a tutorial about implementing GLSL?

I guess my position on software packaging is that I resent being expected to do it myself, I don't believe in having a single package repository for all freedesktops. While its silly to have so many package managers, the proprietary world shows all the expectations placed on a centralized repository leaves you with no right actions to take.

So while I don't object to FlatPak, I do object to some of its marketting. And I do appreciate packagers reducing how much I've heaped on my plate!

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Reminder: "The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS). Everything is built under the misconception that OSS is abundant, replaceable, and free.

"People don’t appreciate just how much web dev is about extracting value from OSS, both on individual and corporate levels."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/

This does include Linux (and GCC/GNU LibC/Bash/CoreUtils/systemd, not sure about the rest)...

@ekaitz_zarraga Does any compiler engineer?

Let's Build a Compiler Ch XIV Types - Jack W. Crenshaw (1989): https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/tutor14.txt

CommentCPP; add confusing comments to an existing [C++] source file - Alexandru Tiniuc: https://github.com/tiniuclx/CommentCPP (GitHub)

Never Mind Killer Robots-Here Are Six Real AI Dangers to Watch Out For In 2019 - MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/07/137929/never-mind-killer-robotshere-are-six-real-ai-dangers-to-watch-out-for-in-2019/ (Paywalled)

Kind of interested, but don't want to sign in...

Are we *really* engineers? - Hillel Wayne @ 8th Light, Inc: https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=3018ABlET1Y (YouTube via Invidious)