A summary of the dispute in which chardet's original author argues that the LGPL-to-MIT relicensing was invalid, and the formal launch of the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Two very different cross-sections of OSS governance.
Two arguments: a renewed look at Web Components asking ‘Do we really need React?’ and a push to ‘turn Dependabot off and switch to Go’s vulnerability checker.’ Both revisit long‑standing defaults with technical reasoning.
An experiment in exchanging WebRTC signaling data via QR codes to achieve P2P voice calls with zero servers. Covers SDP chunking/reassembly and ICE candidate gathering.
From browser OCR and server-side OCR to cloud APIs and AI — a roundup of what I learned trying to implement Japanese OCR on the web, including the limits of each approach.
Tried to implement morphological analysis in the browser — Sudachi was too heavy, kuromoji.js had a bug. Eventually solved it with a fork and a custom loader.
