The Problem: A week ago I went to my grandmother who is suffering from demantia. At first I thought it was normal at this second but i wanted to know the cause so i looked up in google and saw that over 55 million patentis are navigating a world where they wake up and cannot recognize their own children's faces. They miss critical life spanning medications and suffer catastrophic falls when unm...
Every team that touches regulated data eventually has the same meeting. Someone from compliance asks a deceptively simple question: who changed this customer's email address, when, and what was it before? And the room goes quiet, because the honest answer is that nobody knows. The change happened three sprints ago, the previous value is gone, and the closest thing to a record is a Modifie...
Every dev tool I install seems to weigh more than my IDE. My API client, the thing I use to fire off HTTP requests, sat at a few hundred megabytes on disk and used close to a gigabyte of RAM just sitting open in the background.
When we started Ironcall, keeping it small and fast wasn't a bullet point on a feature list. It was the whole reason we bothered. This post is about one decision...
I build a lot of small static sites — portfolios, landing pages, local
business sites — and the contact form question always comes up the same way.
Form spree's free tier is 50 submissions a month. After that, it's $15-29/month
for what is, fundamentally, just forwarding form data to your inbox. For a
small client site that gets a handful of inquiries a month, that's a stran...
Key takeaways
Google Sheets recalculates cells twice as fast after shifting its compute engine to WebAssembly. Figma cut initial load time by 3x. Shopify executes custom checkout rules compiled from Rust to Wasm at the CDN edge - all in production, serving millions of users every day.
WebAssembly started as a way to bring C++ into the browser. Today, in 2026, it is a universal binary runtime that exe...