WebAssembly + Search = ⚡
Hi 👋
I’ve been closely following the development of Stork.
Impossibly fast web search, made for static sites.
It’s an open source project that uses WebAssembly to power in-browser search. I wanted to learn more about how it worked! And the easiest way for me to do that is to try and clone it.
So I did – and I wrote about it in WebAssembly Search Tools for Static Sites.
The result is, well, it’s no Stork. But it works and it’s fast. If there’s one way to get a developer to respect the complexity of your project, have them build a technical demo of it with 1/50th of the features.
Baby
A little after new year, my wife gave birth to our son! There’s a tweet of me carrying him in an over-sized teddy bear onesie.
I built an album website to host pictures of the little dude. It’s built with Next.js and I plan to open source it at some point. For me, it solves the problem of: I have some albums/pictures, give me an instagram-like layout on a domain that I control.
As I write this, I’ve finished my paternity leave. I’m back leading a team at Tails.com (an online bespoke dog food manufacturer and seller). We’re hiring a full stack engineer, and a lead dev. I’m happy to refer you.
Markov Chains
I wrote up my notes about Markov chains + text generation into a little hello world guide!
The code snippets are short enough to fit in a tweet and will help you “train bots” 🤖 to speak like authors, articles, or … anything actually.
Check it out in Generating Text With Markov Chains.
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Andrew