Hello fellow developer, how do you bear the load of large files on the web? We sat down with Thomas Steiner of Google to talk about a new browser API proposal that should make storing large files locally much easier. You can also learn how to understand AI systems in a visual way, how to write Minesweeper in 247 bytes, get a light-weight browser for your agent and why AI coding will prevent you from getting necessary expertise.
One of the big issues with web applications is how to store or cache large files so that users don't have to wait for ages or burn through their data allowance. There are various ways to do that, and in the past the biggest one was relying on a CDN and caching. With AI models these days we are in a totally different world when it comes to sizes which is why there is now a new proposal to solve this issue with Cross Origin Storage. We sat down with one of the authors of the proposal, Thomas Steiner of Google, and got him to tell us all about it. Check out what Cross-Origin Storage is and how to try it out.
