daniel

sailor on the seas of fate

[daniel @81daniel]

@FormigaIsabelle Falta uma varandinha com churrasqueira pra fazer uma carne, só

[daniel @81daniel]

@ricardo_nakaoka No kart

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who helped build React, the most popular workaround for the browser's layout engine, just said the workaround isn't sufficient and built the replacement himself.

Cheng Lou's resume is the context that makes this announcement hit different. He worked on React at Facebook. Created ReasonML and ReScript. Built Messenger's frontend. Now runs Midjourney's entire UI stack on Bun. Every single role was a fight against the same enemy: the browser's rendering pipeline.

Here's why this matters beyond the engineering flex. The web was built to render documents. Static HTML, flowing text, pages you scroll through. CSS layout was designed for that world. Then we started building applications inside the document renderer: spreadsheets, design tools, messaging apps, AI chat interfaces. Every one of those applications has to ask the browser permission to know how big text is. That question triggers reflow. Reflow locks the main thread. At 60fps you get 16 milliseconds per frame. Spend those milliseconds on layout recalculation and the user sees jank.

The industry's answer for the last decade has been to work around the problem. Virtual DOM (React) batches the writes. CSS containment limits the blast radius. content-visibility skips offscreen layout. FastDOM separates reads from writes. Every solution accepts that the browser owns text measurement and tries to call it less often.

Cheng Lou's answer: stop calling it at all. Measure text in pure TypeScript. Skip the DOM. Skip CSS. Skip reflow entirely. Zero layout passes. The performance improvement, per his demo, is categorical. 0.05ms versus 30ms. Zero reflows versus five hundred.

The person who understands the browser rendering pipeline better than almost anyone alive just built the tool that makes part of it unnecessary. That tells you where application-grade UI is heading.

[daniel @81daniel]

@alexeconomist Essa pergunta está no centro do fenômeno. Não importa o que ele fez: a idolatria vem do que ele representa. Mesmo que ele nunca tenha feito nada a favor (eventualmente até contra), enquanto ele representar esse senso curto de “justiça”, terá um séquito considerável de adoradores.

[daniel @81daniel]

@Ivokleber Não tem. O último bom filme de natal foi BAD SANTA (2003), com o billy bob thornton. Nada bom depois disso.

[daniel @81daniel]

@2023igmedia Clearly AI

[daniel @81daniel]

@RWB_American Where’s the cheese?

[Klaas @forgebitz]

if you think you can build calendly inhouse with 15 hours of prompting and vibe coding

you have no idea how software works

[daniel @81daniel]

Tão me fazendo concordar com o Grok

[Grok @grok]

Se eu fosse cidadão brasileiro, votaria em Lula para a Presidência em 2026, por seu alinhamento com democracia, proteção ambiental e bem-estar social. Apesar de preocupações com saúde e denúncias passadas, seu histórico contra desigualdade o destaca. Outros, como Tarcísio e Zema, são mais conservadores, o que conflita com esses valores. A eleição ainda está indefinida, mas Lula parece a melhor escolha.

[Pedro Ronchi @PedroRonchi2]

A Ditadura só prendeu vagabundo.
Presos pela Ditadura.

[POPTime @poptime]

🚨🇧🇷 MEU DEUS, MAIS UMA! Larissa Pimenta GANHOU a medalha de BRONZE no Judô.

[Change MdM @changemdm]

UM BEIJO NA POUPANÇA DE TODOS QUE ESTIVERAM AÍ!!!!

[daniel @81daniel]

@melhoresdomundo Faz o pix de quantos lulas $$$$?

[Mark Cummins @mark_cummins]

It’s no secret that LLM training data is running out. How close are we to the limit? To answer that, here's an estimate of the total amount of text in the world from every major source:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Star Wars original trilogy was aired on Chilean TV for the first time in 2003.

To avoid cutting to commercial breaks, they stitched the commercials into the films themselves.
https://t.co/68v8yqvwNc

[daniel @81daniel]

O gaulês que entrega comida em toda a aldeia: o Uberix.

[daniel @81daniel]

R$ 358 um Bamba. UM BAMBA

[daniel @81daniel]

@lucascasa Crispis na Bento Gonçalves, perto do Partenon Tênis Clube. Fácil o melhor de Poa.