I think they had to solve the TCP connection, as normally you can't easily implement TCP sockets in WASM. So I suppose they just need to tunnel all the connection through some websocket.
Many negative comments here stem from readers applying some specific corporate contexts and dismissing the book's use cases. That misses the point. This book isn't an advanced automation manual for 2026. It’s an excellent book for beginners who want to learn how to automate some tedious work.
Yes, actual programmers don't need this book. But their non-programming roommates or relatives might!
The word "tedious" totally jumped out at me! The vast majority of corporate desk jockeys (like myself) use Excel as part of a tedious daily workflow. Python is the perfect de-tedious-ification tool. And easy to learn to boot.
So what happened to Meta after those successful llama 3 model releases? They really made competing models back then. If felt like they have right people, strategy and good results. Now it feels they have neither of those…
Not at the moment, but I was originally planning to put out the tooling for generating these visualizations. All created from local Git repos and some additional JSON metadata, completely dogfooding various thi.ng packages/projects...
About a year ago the whole situation changed and Microsoft started to push everyone to their own Data Engineering solution (Fabric) that back then was really half-baked.
That's sad! Simplenote is a really useful and quick note taking app that's minimal but not missing anything for this kind of app. It's like notational velocity but done in a clean way, and synchronizing across devices. For me it was really enough for many years.
PS. And there is this surprise when you discover that all notes are versioned.
