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Kotlin on wasm: what surprised me
Running Kotlin in the browser through WebAssembly turned up problems the JVM had hidden: a regex engine that punishes lookbehinds, a quadratic tokeniser, one thread for everything, and no system fonts.
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diagrams with React Flow
demonstrating static and interactive diagrams using React Flow
astro components
A tour of the Astro Components collection - a small set of self-contained npm packages that add diagrams, theming, and version notes to Astro 6+ sites, each usable as a plain component or a one-line integration.
astro theme toggle
A deep dive into @sjohansson/astro-theme-toggle - an SSR-friendly Astro theme system with light, dark, high-contrast, and color-vision modes, no flash of the wrong theme, and theming driven by either inline variables or data attributes.
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