How We Built an In-Browser 0.4s Lossless Video Trimmer with WebAssembly (and Zero Backend Servers)
Modern web video tools have a glaring architectural flaw: we are still transferring hundreds of megabytes over the public internet to perform basic…
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Java WebAssembly Meets WebForms Core 2.2
WebAssembly allows applications written in languages other than JavaScript to execute directly in the browser. With WebForms Core 2.2, Java can also…
Палеокомпьютинг, часть 1: процессор Вирта, проект Оберон, новая архитектура в Qemu и KubeVirt и запуск в Cozystack и K8s
1 января 2024 года умер Никлаус Вирт, человек, который придумал Pascal, Modula-2 и Oberon, получил премию Тьюринга и всю жизнь упрямо воевал с разду…
Architecture Case Study: How HYNAWEB Operates a Global Developer Ecosystem With Zero Traditional Servers
Modern startups face a strucztural dilemma: infrastructure costs scale faster than revenue. Server provisioning, database maintenance, GPU clusters,…
AssemblyScript WebAssembly Meets WebForms Core 2.1
What is WebForms Core? WebForms Core is a server-orchestrated UI technology that allows the server to generate commands for manipulating the browser…
Building a Zero-Lag Client-Side Python Visualizer with Pyodide & WebAssembly
Understanding code execution, call stacks, and pointer mutations can be tricky—especially when debugging complex algorithms, recursion, or data stru…
How I Built 30 Privacy-First Dev Tools with Blazor WebAssembly (and Why Nothing Leaves Your Browser)
Every developer has done this at least once: you have a JWT from production, you need to see what's inside it, so you paste it into the first "JWT d…
[Event Sourcing] Running an Existing C# Business Model on Wasm with SekibanWasmRuntime
In the previous article, we created a C# application using Sekiban DCB to handle students, classes, and class enrollment. This time, we will try run…
A new WebAssembly runtime enters the arena... Is it worthy?
A few minutes ago, I released my brand-new WebAssembly runtime, Wago . There's one massive problem though. Wasmtime is mature, fast, and backed by t…
Ask canvas for a WebP in Safari and you silently get a PNG
Every browser-based WebP converter I looked at is built on one line: canvas . toBlob ( blob => { /* ... */ }, ' image/webp ' , quality ) It's a r…
Rust for Rust, JS for JS: introducing Ahoi
Why I built Ahoi When you want to manage data state in Rust/Wasm inside a web app, there have been two main options. Option 1: hand-roll the bridge…
Break the Speed Limit: WebAssembly in Next.js & Rust 🦀
The JavaScript Compute Ceiling JavaScript is a miraculous language, but it was fundamentally designed as a dynamic, interpreted scripting language f…
Sandboxed isn't safe
When I introduced afmpeg , one phrase did a lot of heavy lifting: safely process untrusted media . The FFmpeg inside is compiled to WebAssembly and…
The Best iLovePDF Alternatives (One of Them Never Touches Your Files)
Why People Look for iLovePDF Alternatives iLovePDF is good. Clean interface, reliable output, handles most PDF tasks. Three reasons come up every ti…
How WebAssembly became our privacy architecture (not just a performance trick)
Most WebAssembly articles talk about performance. Yours runs 5x faster than pure JavaScript. Great. This one is about something different: how Wasm'…
Java on Cloudflare Workers
This post details bytebox , a dependency and runtime to get Java to run on Serverless Architecture via Cloudflare Workers. It uses TeaVM to compile…
Launching vizcrush: Three Beliefs My Benchmarks Killed
It's the week before vizcrush goes public, and I have two files open side by side. On the left, the launch copy: the JS core beats the most popular…
636 Bytes: What Happens When You Stop Teaching RPA the Path
I sat in a room with a very large automation system and a very familiar problem: it had become fragile. The language came quickly. DOM. Timestamps.…
What I gave up to run Spring static analysis in a browser
There is a question that costs me half an hour every time I have to answer it: If I change this controller method, what else breaks? The honest proc…
Building image & video conversion that never leaves the browser
How VisualRefiner converts HEIC, compresses images, and transcodes video with no server, no upload, and no account — using the Canvas API, WebCodecs…
FFmpeg.wasm in production: deadlocks, a 2 GB ceiling and a codec that lies to users
FFmpeg.wasm can hang forever with no error, no log and no way out except killing the tab. That happened to roughly one in ten heavy jobs before I sh…
Zero-Trust Microservices with WebAssembly (Wasm) Runtime Sandboxing
Zero-Trust Microservices with WebAssembly (Wasm) Runtime Sandboxing Architecture blueprint for running untrusted microservice code inside WebAssembl…
Extracting Matrix SDK into a Rust WASM Library
The Monolith Problem in Early Prototypes When building an ambitious application, it is tempting to put all code into a single repository. In early i…
Exploring WebAssembly on the Server Beyond the Browser
After spending over seven years designing distributed enterprise backends using managed frameworks like C# and Java, I recently stepped outside my h…
Why I built a zero-upload, local-first browser video compressor (and why you should stop uploading your MP4s to remote servers)
As content creators, video editors, and developers, we compress files almost every single day. Whether you're exporting a 4K draft for a client, try…
Exploring WebAssembly on the Server: Beyond the Browser Sandbox
For nearly a decade, my mental model for deploying enterprise software has revolved around containers, which are lightweight packages that bundle an…
How to achieve zero-copy streaming from hyper and h3-quinn into a Wasmtime Wasm component via wasi:http?
Hello everyone, I am currently building a high-performance API gateway that integrates business logic components—implemented via WASI and running wi…
Exploring WebAssembly Beyond the Browser: A Cloud Architect's First Look at WASI
For years, my day job has centered on enterprise cloud backends built around containers, which are isolated digital environments that package an app…
How I Built a BRSTM Converter with WebAssembly — Technical Deep Dive
The Problem: No Browser-Based BRSTM Tool Existed Every existing BRSTM converter was a desktop app — BrawlBox for Windows, Looping Audio Converter (r…
Browser-Side File Conversion with WebAssembly
A few months ago, I needed to add file conversion to a web app — nothing fancy, just letting users drop in a file and get back a different format. M…