Human folly for 02025-12-27

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• IndexedDB synchronous API web workers whats the point (stackoverflow.com):

  It seems like the #IndexedDB draft used to have a synchronous API for use in Web Workers which was eventually removed. #HTML5

• IndexedDB (w3.org):

  #HTML5 #IndexedDB no longer has a synchronous API

• IndexedDB API (developer.mozilla.org):

  MDN explains that #HTML5 #IndexedDB only has an asynchronous API, although the section header may be a remnant from the draft when it had a synchronous one.

• Idbtransaction (developer.mozilla.org):

  #HTML5 #IndexedDB #transactions commit implicitly when you return to the event loop without any pending requests, which seems error-prone

• How do you keep an IndexedDB transaction alive (stackoverflow.com):

  Jonas Sicking (an #HTML5 #IndexedDB spec author) explains how its #transactions work; normally they’re pretty transparent, and you can, like, read some data and then write some data in the callback when the reads succeed.

• IndexedDB APIs javascriptnext (blog.nparashuram.com):

  Disqus hasn’t yet lost Jonas Sicking’s comment about the synchronous API to #HTML5 #IndexedDB: “The reason we’re not permitting access to the sync version in the main thread, i.e. in Window environments, is that synchronous IO is terrible for performance. This would remain the same no matter what syntax is used, so would not be affected by a switch to a module based syntax.

  However any environment that isn’t the main thread should be able to use the sync version. That isn’t affected by weather we use module syntax or not though. We could allow access to the synchronous API to any non-main thread environment. Currently the only such environment is web workers. If more are added in the future we might be able to add them there too, independent of if we use modules or not.” He also comments on how their #transactions work.

• Show bug (bugzilla.mozilla.org):

  10 years ago Mozilla changed #IndexedDB to have non-durable #transactions by default, adding a “readwriteflush” mode for durable transactions. #HTML5

• Seven Abbott freestyle libre CGM patients (sfconservancy.org):

  Seven Abbott implantable CGM [continuous glucose monitor] patients are dead because of a software bug in the proprietary software; the author’s own device is one of those affected, although he hasn’t died.

• Rothschildia (nic.funet.fi):

  Rothschildia jacobaeae, the Brazilian silk moth, is endemic to Argentina. No word on whether the caterpillar stings.

• Elephant (www-formal.stanford.edu):

  #PDF of McCarthy’s "Elephant 2000" #paper, a programming language that is faithful, one hundred percent.

• Hosts (data.nhm.ac.uk):

  “HOSTS - a Database of the World’s Lepidopteran Hostplants” #dataset

• Write (pubs.opengroup.org):

  the POSIX.1-2018 (?) spec for write(2)