How Browsers Work
by dmytro-krasun
Understanding browser internals—from URL to pixels—builds the mental model every web developer needs to debug performance issues and write faster code.
networking
(3)Can Sync Be Network-optional?
by brendan-obrien
Sync is literally impossible (we have a formal proof), centralization is faster (we have a paper), and the real prize of peer-to-peer isn't ideology — it's sublinear scaling, the same physics that makes electrical grids and cardiovascular systems work.
CRDTs Solved Conflicts, Not Sync
by adam-fish
CRDTs are a solid substrate for sync engines, but transport reliability, multiplexing, compression, query-based sync, and distributed deletes are the harder — and more valuable — engineering challenges.