Computing researcher, maker of monsters
Series: Browser Mechanics in My Own Words
In this series, I write all about browser mechanics, but the real emphasis is on finding the many, many overlaps between the domain of the web and computer science.
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Browser Mechanics In My Own Words, Part 2: The Browser is An Interpreter
The code we humans write cannot be read by computers – it must be translated into machine code. Compilers and interpreters do that, and the browser is an interpreter!
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Browser Mechanics In My Own Words, Part 1: Decode Bytes to Unicode Code Points
This is the first in a potentially long series about browser mechanics, in my own words. Read on to learn about one of the first steps a browser takes: decoding bytes to Unicode code points.