Reid Burke

Knowledge Updates

Observations while developing web applications and creating great software.

  • Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space ↗

    phiresky:

    How could we effectively visualize 100,000,000 books or more at once? There’s lots of data to view: Titles, authors, which countries the books come from, which publishers, how old they are, how many libraries hold them, whether they are available digitally, etc.

    International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) are 13-digit numbers that are assigned to almost all published books. Since the first three digits are fixed (currently only 978- and 979-) and the last digit is a checksum, this means the total ISBN13-Space only has two billion slots. Here is my interactive visualization of that space.

  • Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers ↗

    Victor Gomes:

    At V8, we’re constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently revisited the JetStream2 benchmark suite to eliminate performance cliffs. This post details a specific optimization we made that yielded a significant 2.5ximprovement in the async-fs benchmark, contributing to a noticeable boost in the overall score. The optimization was inspired by the benchmark, but such patterns do appear in real-world code.

  • Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years ↗

    Apple suppliers already manufacture silicon in 24 factories across 12 states. Pictured: Texas Instruments’ new semiconductor wafer fabrication plant in Lehi, Utah.
    Image credit: Apple Inc.

    Apple:

    Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. This new pledge builds on Apple’s long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing, and will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country.

    “We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing. And we’ll keep working with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”

  • Music to Refine To ↗

    Apple x ODESZA:

    An exclusive ODESZA set designed for eight hours of focus—perfect for your innie’s workday.

    Season 2 of Severance is out now.

    In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.

  • Migrating Apple Account purchases between accounts ↗

    Apple:

    You can choose to migrate apps, music, and other content you’ve purchased from Apple on a secondary Apple Account to a primary Apple Account. The secondary Apple Account might be an account that’s used only for purchases.