MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 – MIT licensed!
Making of Underrun – An entry in js13kGames. I’m impressed.
boomerang – Helpful client side JavaScript library for performance metrics. It has moved around several times, so I’m making a note here of where it lives now.
How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript (ES2015) – I like these language comparison lists of “how to do X in Y and Z”. If you are familiar Y, it helps you quickly get a feel for Z.
Project Python – An interactive option for learning Python.
Java’s new Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) is very exciting – I still hear about people running into problems with “Stop The World” collection events. The new ZGC sounds promising.
aspider – Async URL crawling in Python.
Tests for CDNs and Reverse Proxies – Looking into the way various CDNs behave in regards to HTTP caching.
Chrome’s NOSCRIPT Intervention – Tim Kadlec tries visiting sites with NOSCRIPT enabled. Those JavaScript bytes are expensive.
Vitess – A MySQL horizontal scaling system.
Typical Performance Review – Joseph Wynn writes about how he dug into the performance of trademe.co.nz.
A tour of JavaScript timers on the web – Timers in browser side JavaScript can be tricky beasts ( via ).
Chrome for Android may start disabling JavaScript on 2G connections – JavaScript bytes are expensive, so this will definitely make pages load faster. If this change happens, it may prompt a new push to make sure pages have at least some functionality when JavaScript is disabled.
40 million tables in MySQL 8.0 with ZFS – “Just to create them, I needed at least 5Tb of fast disk storage.” The answer for this test was compression.