Stop a Function Call From Hanging the Main Thread Without Using Web Workers
Using hooks into a JS-in-JS interpreter to enforce a time budget on the same thread
Aug 7, 20268 min read1 reactions0 comments
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How I stopped a local chess engine from freezing the browser UI
When building browser-based tools that handle heavy computation—like a chess engine calculating deep...
Jun 1, 20262 min read1 reactions0 comments
Your UI Isn't Slow Because of the Network – It's Your Main Thread
Have you ever used an app where the data is already loaded, there's no spinner, no network request...
Jul 1, 20263 min read1 reactions1 comments
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May 19, 2026Web Workers : Understand in 3 Minutes
Problem Statement Web Workers let you run JavaScript in the background, on a separate...
May 19, 20263 min read0 reactions0 comments
Why Your Browser Crashes on Large File Hashing (and How to Fix It with Web Workers)
Stop Crashing the Browser Main Thread with Heavy Hashing Operations We have all been...
Jun 4, 20266 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 29, 2026OPFS: The Browser's Built-in Filesystem Explained
Origin Private File System gives browsers a real sandboxed filesystem. How it compares to IndexedDB, Cache API, and why it's the right tool for 200MB+ assets.
Apr 29, 20269 min read1 reactions0 comments
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May 28, 2026Building Blazing-Fast Ebook Converters: Debouncing, Chunking & Web Workers for Responsive UI
Responsive UIs for High-Throughput Ebook Converters: Debouncing, Chunking & Web...
May 28, 20269 min read1 reactions0 comments
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May 28, 2026Why Online Diff Checkers Crash on Large Files (And How to Fix It with Web Workers)
Why Your Browser Freezes When Comparing Large Files Have you ever pasted a 10MB database...
May 28, 20267 min read0 reactions1 comments
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Apr 30, 2026Web Workers in React: Heavy Work Off Main Thread
CPU-heavy tasks block the UI — Web Workers fix that. Integrate Workers in React with Comlink, custom hooks, and Vite, with before/after profiling results.
Apr 30, 20268 min read3 reactions0 comments
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Apr 13, 2026How a Web Worker Fixed My Dying-Battery Audio (And What I Learned About PWAs the Hard Way)
I modified an open-source NES emulator to run in the browser as a PWA. On slow phones, the audio sounded like a toy running out of battery. Here is how Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer fixed it.
Apr 13, 20267 min read1 reactions0 comments
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Mar 20, 2026Browser-Based Unix-Like OS: Achieving Process Isolation, Sync System Calls, and Lightweight JSX DOM Framework
Introduction: The Vision of a Browser-Based Unix Imagine a browser tab that isn’t just a...
Mar 20, 202614 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Mar 20, 2026A small browser app for geodesics on curved surfaces
Lightweight Spectro-Geodesic Explorer is my browser-based project for exploring geodesic flow on...
Mar 20, 20261 min read1 reactions0 comments