DarkGL

I do stuff and I like to make javascript/go/rust fast

[Marcin Dudek @MythThrazz]

WordPress is SLOW (usually) but... it doesn't have to be.

After working with WordPress for 15+ years as the plugin developer - I've picked a thing or two (or 30) about WordPress performance.

And it's all beyond the obvious:
"Install caching plugin"
and
"Buy a $300/mo hosting" ( this is bullshit btw. if you're paying more than $20-50/mo you're being ripped hard)

So I wrote a piece about it. It's very low-level and technical mind you, but maybe you'll find something useful there.

https://t.co/yCbjWpr7cQ

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Google has shipped a CLI for Google Workspace (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, …) Huge!

Written in Rust, distributed through npm & https://t.co/egfC60tXum

$ npm i -g @⁠googleworkspace/cli
$ npx skills add github:googleworkspace/cli

2026 is the year of Skills & CLIs
https://t.co/8jd16P5ncR

[Peter Pistorius @appfactory]

Open source is dead.

So I released an open source CI runner that's 100% compatible with GitHub Actions, and runs on your own machine. 0ms cache, and super fast.

It has a unique feature called "pause on failure" that pauses the current step, allows you to fix it, when you do you re-run just that step. The code is copied over and loop and iterate. Super fast.

https://t.co/uHgIYFI27N

[Ben Word @retlehs]

TIL you can pull the backlinks to any domain for free (instead of using a service that charges hundreds a month) using Common Crawl's web graph. Wrote a tiny bash script:

https://t.co/KDVhYMjhq8

[Zeke Sikelianos @zeke]

In case you missed it, Cloudflare has a new MCP server.

Full API coverage, tiny context footprint.

https://t.co/0k4oyqD8zI

[Antoine Vastel @xopek59]

FPScanner v1.0.0 is out 🤖🕵️
Open source browser fingerprinting & bot detection library.
Repo: https://t.co/nLsm8q0I7L

I originally built it during my PhD ~9 years ago. Recently revived it because scraping + automation got much easier, but solid open tooling is still limited.

[Rohit Ghumare @ghumare64]

@tobi If you want to use multiple gpu and cpus to run the same: https://t.co/TxNHoO3sp6

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Bad AGENTS​.md files can make your coding agent worse and cost you tokens.

Here's a prompt you can use to clean them up - PLUS a full guide for folks wanting to learn more.

Enjoy: https://t.co/vDSwVQYKbT

[Mark Wolfe 🐺 @wolfeidau]

Really enjoyed reading this post about http access to databases and the performance tradoffs. /ht @PlanetScale for posting this research. 😅🤯 https://t.co/WYb1DrqJb7

[AJ Stuyvenberg @astuyve]

We just shipped one of the coolest free database perf tools

It's a SQL execution plan visualizer which helps you spot things like a missing index, full-table scan, or inefficient join

Just paste the EXPLAIN output and find out why your query is slow:

https://t.co/b3Uo3vJ3so

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels 🛠️

Containers, VMs, microVMs, and Unikernels are all isolated execution environments. But some are better for one class of use cases, while others are better for another.

VMs are the heaviest (need more space, and take longer time to start up), but they are also the most versatile.

Containers are probably the fastest and most handy, but their isolation is the weakest, and their applicability is more limited.

MicroVMs (e.g., Firecracker) take the niche between containers and VMs - faster than VMs and more isolated than containers, yet usually more limited than traditional VMs, and the tooling is much less handy than for traditional Linux containers.

But what about Unikernels? Are they closer to VMs or containers? How hard or easy is it to create and run your own? And what niche do they take?

You can learn all of it and more in the just-published hands-on intro to Unikernels by a debuting iximiuz Labs author, Antoine Cotten 👏

https://t.co/4bUZqx4Wr3

[Sebastian Beltran @bjohansebas]

🎉 The codemods to migrate Express to version 5 are now available on https://t.co/T9VYazWUnY!

👉️ Run the recipe: npx codemod@latest @expressjs/v5-migration-recipe

👉️ More codemods here: https://t.co/U6QXRyt15G

[DarkGL @darkgl_]

https://t.co/Pv0d7g3O2C

[Counter Strike Archive @CSLostArchive]

Happy New Year-CS 1.6 Fireworks (2010)

[Rafael Gonzaga @_rafaelgss]

Major performance improvements are landing in Node.js, thanks to Nikita Skovoroda.

• Buffer#toString() up to 10× faster on non-ASCII (also impacts UTF-8 TextDecoder)

• Buffer#toString() up to 2× faster on ASCII

• TextDecoder (windows-1252 / latin1 / ascii): 25× faster on ASCII and up to 100× on non-ASCII

• Other single-byte encodings: ~27× faster on ASCII, with smaller gains on non-ASCII

Relevant PRs:
* https://t.co/F4juZdYbHs
* https://t.co/GPQh47ArSp
* https://t.co/UU5XarTIcT

[Grafana @grafana]

Modern observability demands both breadth and depth, and no single instrumentation technique delivers it all.

Here’s why you should combine #eBPF and SDKs for #OpenTelemetry instrumentation: https://t.co/qeUlA12dOy

[Mike Coutermarsh @mscccc]

Christmas week is for finding your N+1’s and fixing them

[Vivek Galatage @vivekgalatage]

When a talk has punchlines like these, you know you are onto a fascinating journey.

You should probably know - if you don't have curly braces in your programming language, you cannot sell it.

I didn't know anything about JavaScript when starting in 2006 - it was a strange language!
I looked at it and said, 'Well, at least it would be fun to make it fast!'

Pushing the Limits of Web Browsers by Lars Bak (2012)
https://t.co/k3HDXNCGQZ

[Modular @Modular]

We just launched Mojo🔥 GPU Puzzles Edition 1, a hands-on guide that teaches GPU programming through 34 progressive challenges, not lectures.
Learn by doing, from your first GPU threads to tensor cores.
Works on NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple GPUs.
https://t.co/nXy5cDSJCU

[Vadym Kazulkin @VKazulkin]

"Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs".
Ultimately, the best solution combined hardware awareness with software improvements.
by @NetflixEng
https://t.co/SuJenizsIV