A few months ago my friend Craig Kerstiens decided to see what's possible with Web Assembly, the thing that runs Code That's Not JavaScript in the browser. If you're a Microsoft dev, you might have heard of Blazor, which compiles C# code to Web Assembly which then gets handed to the browser to run in-process.
It turns out that people are taking Web Assembly pretty seriously, including Adobe, which compiled PhotoShop and Acrobat to Web Assembly so you could run it in the browser!
Love the image of the elephant... which reminds me... this post is mostly about Postgres, so let's get back to Craig's story...
I wrote a fun database tutorial using data from NASA's Cassini Mission. You get to load up your database with actual data from Saturn: A Curious Moon
Learning Elixir changed me as a programmer, and learning functional concepts changed the way I think about writing software. How about you? Is functional proogramming a useful thing to learn?
I've been using Ghost for many years and recently I decided to see just how far I could push it.
Lots happening here, so here’s an update.