Jason Thorsness

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sea
5May 6, 24

Weather Bingo

Did it rain yesterday? The weather apps never tell you what the weather was, only what it will be. For time travelers and historians like myself, this is a major problem. Now with weather.bingo on the SingleStore Free Shared Tier I’ve solved that problem forever. Here’s how.

underwater
4Feb 26, 24

BSON — The Gritty Details

I recently wrote an article on the SingleStore Engineering Blog on our use of the BSON Data Type in SingleStore’s latest release. That provides a brief overview of BSON in SingleStore — but what about the minute details of the type itself? Here’s an in-depth guide to the entirety of the BSON data type.

crab
3Feb 25, 24

Hire Some Web Workers

Hundreds of readers wrote to complain about the sluggish performance of the slider on the previous article. Fundamentally the non-SIMD version of the program took long enough to cause noticeable lag in the UI — because the thread used for DOM updates was also the one used for the long-running test. Here’s how I used Web Workers to fix it.

a fungus
2Feb 22, 24

WebAssembly SIMD

NativeAOT-LLVM does not yet support SIMD through System.Numerics.Vector. However, it’s straightforward to reimplement the same functionality — if you don’t mind getting your hands a bit dirty with WebAssembly intrinsics in C. Here’s how.

a lichen
1Feb 21, 24

Better DotNet WebAssembly

DotNet WebAssembly has been tied up with the Blazor project which is an awkward fit for use cases that don’t involve a Blazor UI. Now we have something better. NativeAOT-LLVM compiles C# to WebAssembly using LLVM, and makes interop with JavaScript and other languages like C/C++ straightforward. See how straightforward integration is with NextJS.

ferns
0Feb 21, 24

Where Is The Content?

Most of the fun of having a personal website is in recreating it every few years…? This is the simplest layout yet, based on NextJS 14 App Router, DotNet 8, and Tractor Loader for image manipulation. I’ll recycle the content from my old site eventually and replay it here — message me on X/Twitter if there’s anything in particular you miss.

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