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Web workers for Lightbeam
2–3 minutesThis is an initial attempt to improve the graph’s performance for large number of nodes using web workers. This PR is a work in progress. The idea here is to off-load the heavy force layout computations to the web worker. This improves performance during page load. I am also experimenting on passing the logic to… Read more
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Bits, Bytes & Binary
1–2 minutesIf you are following the tech feed on Twitter, then you couldn’t have missed the news of a new Podcast being released to teach Computer Science fundamentals. It is the BaseCS Podcast with Vaidehi Joshi & Saron Yitbarek. If you haven’t listened yet, please do! Tech-cartoons is my new found hobby and this series of… Read more
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React & Observables
1–2 minutesOver the weekend, I attempted to learn about Observables and I tried to combine React & Observables. Considering my growing obsession to create zines, here is my attempt at tech-cartoons inspired by this great article from Julia Evans. The code can be found here. Read more
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Lightbeam – the launch
1–2 minutesDrum roll…..!!! We released Lightbeam yesterday and I am super proud of my Outreachy work. You can find Lightbeam at the Mozilla add-ons page. What is new? Below are the highlights of Lightbeam 2.0.1: Re-written from scratch to adapt to the browser web-extension API Asynchronous data capture and storage IndexedDB for data storage (data is… Read more
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The ‘first time’ story – Part 1
2–3 minutesI don’t know where to begin, but I promised Zainab Bawa I would write-up about my experience in speaking at tech conferences and into the open source world. Sorry for the late post. Here is the speaking journey! The ‘first’ proposal My first tech talk proposal submission was for JsFoo in 2015. The talk was… Read more
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