# transport layer (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover transport layer. Page: Feed: --- ## [Failed Product Market Fit With a Single Customer](https://ilusr.com/failed-pmf-budgapp/) _2026-08-04 · Jeff Riggle_ Every once in a rare moon I create something I want to use. Many engineers build projects by scratching an itch. I am not that engineer… ## [Learning WASM via WDM](https://ilusr.com/wdm/) _2026-07-07 · Jeff Riggle_ Reflecting on my last blog, I realized that while I have used WASM, I didn’t fully understand WASM. By building my Enigma engine in Rust and… ## [Building Enigma, Misreading Performance](https://ilusr.com/building-enigma/) _2026-06-18 · Jeff Riggle_ As a continuation of the journey through old projects, we now arrive at my foray into WASM. At the time WASM was evolving beyond asm.js and… ## [What is the most challenging post you have written?](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/what-is-the-most-challenging-post-you-have-written-1ac0) _2026-06-11 · Jeff Riggle_ Recently, I have been working on a series of articles across a fairly wide range of topics. In the... ## [How deep does the callback go?](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/the-settimeout-rabbit-hole-5ff4) _2026-06-09 · Jeff Riggle_ Building a scheduler Despite being single-threaded, JavaScript has concurrency as a... ## [Understanding Event Loops Through File I/O](https://ilusr.com/understanding-eventing/) _2026-05-29 · Jeff Riggle_ In the last blog series, I referenced a presentation by Ryan Dahl on NodeJS and wanted to explore the concepts in that talk more. It can be… ## [Farm Scene](https://ilusr.com/farm-animation/) _2026-05-07 · Jeff Riggle_ Description Basic study of motion and procedural generation in a farm setting Medium: 2D Canvas Topics Researched Basic motion (acceleration… ## [First excursion into Electron](https://ilusr.com/discord-electron-study/) _2026-04-18 · Jeff Riggle_ Why use Electron anyway? After a bit of a meandering journey through a silly little Discord bot, we now find ourselves evaluating the… ## [Building a Discord Bot](https://ilusr.com/building-a-discord-bot/) _2026-04-09 · Jeff Riggle_ With the high-level overview of Robit out of the way, it’s time to cover how the server was built. As I mentioned in the last blog, the main… ## [What is a robit?](https://ilusr.com/whats-a-robit/) _2026-03-29 · Jeff Riggle_ Building for someone else Continuing the thread of past projects in creation order, we arrive at robit. Robit was never anything I took too… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WvnA8PUCfWDO) _2026-03-28 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [JavaScript’s Promise Rejected Its Namesake](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/javascripts-promise-rejected-its-namesake-345a) _2026-03-17 · Jeff Riggle_ JavaScript promises aren’t actually the promises they were named after. The concept of a promise... ## [A Promise diverged](https://ilusr.com/promises-history/) _2026-03-12 · Jeff Riggle_ An unexpected journey As I was finishing my last blog, I felt compelled to understand the relationship between promises and async/await… ## [SONA frontend and changing times](https://ilusr.com/sona-fe-review/) _2026-03-05 · Jeff Riggle_ The face of SONA To round out the SONA blog series, I will be focusing on the front-end. Looking back on this project, I’m reminded how… ## [Lessons from the SONA Backend](https://ilusr.com/sona-all-the-db/) _2026-03-03 · Jeff Riggle_ The engine behind SONA Building on the last blog, I want to focus on the backend decisions behind the SONA project.. Looking back on this… ## [Creating an issue tracker](https://ilusr.com/sona-an-introduction/) _2026-02-27 · Jeff Riggle_ Who needs an issue tracker anyway? In the last series of blogs, I wrote about the first public project I worked on. It only seems natural… ## [Best animation you have seen or created?](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/best-animation-you-have-seen-or-created-d0b) _2026-02-24 · Jeff Riggle_ It could be the way I interact with the internet, but most sites I use today follow a pretty... ## [I Assumed Java Streams Had Minimal Overhead. They Didn’t](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/i-assumed-java-streams-had-minimal-overhead-they-didnt-163e) _2026-02-11 · Jeff Riggle_ Many of us have heard the same mantra: idiomatic code comes at little to no cost. The benefit to... ## [Descending the Java Stack](https://ilusr.com/java-perf/) _2026-02-03 · Jeff Riggle_ Some ideas won't leave you alone As I was publishing the last series of blogs, I had a constant nagging feeling that I left the biggest pain… ## [Execution Is Easy Now. That’s the Problem](https://dev.to/jeffrey_riggle_e261fba011/execution-is-everywhere-deep-understanding-is-rare-50pk) _2026-01-18 · Jeff Riggle_ At the end of last year, I had come to a stopping point on one of my many long-running side projects.... ## [IDE for Text Adenture Games?](https://ilusr.com/creating-text-adventures/) _2026-01-17 · Jeff Riggle_ Building an IDE for text adventure games By this point, I have covered most of the core libraries used; now it is time to get into the core… ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cPx2GgIG5trk) _2026-01-16 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Failure to read](https://ilusr.com/java-core-learnings/) _2026-01-10 · Jeff Riggle_ In my last blog entry, I detailed how I came to build a text adventure creator application. Much of that focused on high-level learning… ## [Side Project Beginnings](https://ilusr.com/text-adventure-beginnings/) _2026-01-03 · Jeff Riggle_ Public side projects, a beginning As I mentioned in my last blog entry, I will be covering my past projects and evaluating them. The only… ## [Evaluating past projects](https://ilusr.com/project-review/) _2026-01-02 · Jeff Riggle_ Growth through reflection Lately, I have been busy with my day job, and the work I am doing on the side is not something I am ready to share… ## [Web visualization](https://ilusr.com/web-visualization/) _2025-09-27 · Jeff Riggle_ Visualizing the web So now we come to the end of our planned journey. If you have been following along so far, here is a quick recap. What… ## [Figuring out Page Rank](https://ilusr.com/page-rank/) _2025-09-21 · Jeff Riggle_ Figuring out what is important By now, we have built a functioning web crawler and even generated some administrative tooling to make… ## [Build admin site for crawler](https://ilusr.com/search-admin/) _2025-08-24 · Jeff Riggle_ So you want an intro? If you have been following along by now, you know that I have been working on a search project and have covered what… ## [Indexing the web](https://ilusr.com/search-indexing/) _2025-08-22 · Jeff Riggle_ Taking stock If you are just jumping into this blog post, I would highly recommend reading the "Journey into search" blog I posted before… ## [Journey into search](https://ilusr.com/search-intro/) _2025-08-14 · Jeff Riggle_ Falling down the rabbit hole When I started all of this madness, I had two very simple goals in mind. First, I was going to start using a…