

Jake Archibald walks through the browser event loop — tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, and the surprising ways the runtime interleaves your work with rendering.

Dan Abramov demos the React team's first sketches of async rendering and Suspense — the prototypes that would later become Concurrent Mode.

Ryan Dahl revisits the design decisions he wishes he could undo in Node — and uses the postmortem to introduce Deno.

Lin Clark explains what WebAssembly actually is, why it is fast, and what it means for the browser as a runtime — in her signature illustrated style.

A visual, almost-cartoon walkthrough of how JavaScript actually schedules work — and the talk that taught a generation of frontend devs how their runtime really behaves.

Sebastian Markbåge argues that great libraries shrink — they teach you patterns instead of adding APIs, and they hand functionality back to the language whenever they can.
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