Awesome Algolia Updates (and some fixes here…)

I’ve been a huge fan, and user, of Algolia for a while now. I first wrote about it back in 2020 when I described how I added Algolia search to Eleventy. Later on, I described how one might migrate to Algolia from Lunr. All in all, I’ve been very happy with Algolia and my usage on this blog. Honestly, I feel like I’m the only one who makes use of my search page but I do so nearly daily so it’s critical to me. (And recently, a friend reached out specifically about my search and I’ll discuss that below.) The only real issue I ran into when using Algolia here was the size of my content. Algolia’s free tier maxed out at ten thousand records. That’s very generous... more →
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V8 Javascript Fixes (Horrible!) Random Number Generator – Hackaday

Hackaday V8 Javascript Fixes (Horrible!) Random Number GeneratorHackadayTo quantify the above observations, the official V8 Javascript post that I linked above notes that the coverage is only 232 values out of the possible 252 uniformly-distributed values that a 64-bit float can represent. This is a huge failure of the …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more →
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