Rahul Sethi

Principal Engineer @Cloudflare Workers

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@jarredsumner @mitsuhiko @bielarusajed How about a build per (top k) locale?

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

🎙️"It turns out all these years I've confused 'Journalist' with 'Mouthpiece.'"

High profile political journalist excited to reveal that he's recently discovered how to do journalism, just in time for the change in government.

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

This is spectacular. Right on the money. Whoever wrote this absolutely understands our popular culture.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

@SnazzyLabs No case life has treated me well for a decade

[rita kozlov 🐀 @ritakozlov]

building on cloudflare workers + NPM packages just got a whole lot easier, with

compatibility_flags = ["nodejs_compat_v2"]

and by default, starting sept 26...

you can see the meaningful difference in the coverage now available here: https://t.co/OWwQlogZoW

the team's work here, building on unenv really allows customers to have the best of both worlds — using the packages you need, without unnecessary bloat from polyfilling when it's not needed, and without a ton of tedious updates such as adding `node:` which makes it easy to miss.

what's also cool is that it's easier to mock APIs that are not yet supported natively or via polyfill. you might wonder if this is useful, but we've found so many libraries over the years that import things without actually using them, so yes, this is a huge unblocker!

great deep dive on the previous approaches, and how this makes it so much easier to build, highly recommend taking the team to 🤓

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

The reason every story on this makes sure to reference her ethnicity in the headline is to make sure that you know that you don't have to actually get upset.

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@jasnell @jarredsumner What if you use req.clone() to proxy to multiple origins sequentially? Contrived example:

const req2 = req.clone();
const res1 = await fetch(downstream1, req);
const downstream2 = await res1.text();
const res2 = await fetch(downstream2, req2);

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@lizisraad @JacobMGEvans Use positive padding to make the tappable area bigger than the element itself and use negative margin of the same value to negate any layout diff

input[type=checkbox] {
padding: 20px;
margin: -20px;
}

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@boristane I get @sidchatterjee to stand by a laptop and press send at a specific time. It’s on him to build a slightly more efficient… workflow

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@krupa1i As you’ve mentioned, hard copies come with the problem of staleness. I think digital — but local first — is the best trade off. Then download diff patches. Or redownload the whole updated thing but with tooling that showed you the diffs.

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@incon @kenwheeler It was what??!

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Every word of this.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Darren from Reading is the kind of guy who makes you proud to be British…

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@jaffathecake This seems solvable without a major perf hit

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

@jaffathecake Or maybe cheaper to keep a reference counter for each member in the functions scope and decrement when a closure gets GC’d. When a member’s reference counter hits 0 remove from the scope

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

To help explain the weirdness of LLM Tokenization I thought it could be amusing to translate every token to a unique emoji. This is a lot closer to truth - each token is basically its own little hieroglyph and the LLM has to learn (from scratch) what it all means based on training data statistics.

So have some empathy the next time you ask an LLM how many letters 'r' there are in the word 'strawberry', because your question looks like this:
👩🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻🧔🏼🤾🏻‍♀️🙍‍♀️🧑‍🦼‍➡️🧑🏾‍🦼‍➡️🤙🏻✌🏿🈴🧙🏽‍♀️📏🙍‍♀️🧑‍🦽🧎‍♀🍏💂

Play with it here :)
https://t.co/pFQGZIAW1k

[Rahul Sethi @rahul1sethi]

Is it just AirPods or all noise cancelling earphones that make the screeching on the tube 10x worse?

[Jay Phelps @jayphelps]

There's irony in the fact that I'm most passionate about things like WebAssembly, custom programming languages, RxJS, etc. and yet I'll be the first to tell you you *probably* shouldn't be using them when you ask.