https://lionralfs.dev Lion Ralfs's personal website and blog. en-us https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lion.ralfs@gmail.com (Lion Ralfs) lion.ralfs@gmail.com (Lion Ralfs) https://lionralfs.dev/blog/compiling-scala-as-a-single-binary-for-aws-lambda An experiment of using GraalVM to compile my Scala Lambda to a single binary to improve cold start times. Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:02:13 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/compiling-scala-as-a-single-binary-for-aws-lambda https://lionralfs.dev/blog/should-you-zip-your-precache-assets My attempt at benchmarking to figure out if it's faster to zip your precache assets and extract them in a service worker. Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:29:32 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/should-you-zip-your-precache-assets https://lionralfs.dev/blog/exploring-the-usage-of-prefetch-headers On the web, prefetching describes the practice of downloading something before the user actually needs it. But how do browsers indicate that a certain request is not a "real" user request, but instead a prefetch request? Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:30:00 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/exploring-the-usage-of-prefetch-headers https://lionralfs.dev/blog/k-means-clustering-simplified My attempt at explaining k-means clustering in simple terms as well as walking through a very basic implementation of a clustering algorithm. Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:30:00 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/k-means-clustering-simplified https://lionralfs.dev/blog/rendering-accessible-latex-math-on-the-web I wasn't satisfied with using client side LaTeX rendering, so I figured out how to do it in Node.js while also making it accessible. Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:50:00 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/rendering-accessible-latex-math-on-the-web https://lionralfs.dev/blog/thinking-in-terms-of-constraints Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) are a way to represent a problem in terms of variables and constraints. In this blog post, I explore how to use and solve them. Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:00:00 GMT https://lionralfs.dev/blog/thinking-in-terms-of-constraints