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Release notes and engineering write-ups published across the Tradik projects. Every headline opens the original article on the site that wrote it.
Sources: Tradik · MDDB · SSG · XSLT · Shipyard · TradeWeather
1.8.69 reads JavaScript, TypeScript declarations, Go, PHP, Python and OpenAPI files into pages of the same site as your guides, with examples that run in the browser and a Try it console for every endpoint.
Shipyard is one static binary and one SQLite file. A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 runs it comfortably.
On 17 November 2026, Chrome 158 stops running XSLT (the dates and the reasons). Two kinds of pages break: pages whose JavaScript calls new XSLTProcessor(), and XML documents the browser rendered through <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>. This is the hands-on part: how to find both i
Two releases today. @tradik/xslt3 1.0.0 is a new package: XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 in JavaScript, which also runs XSLT 2.0 stylesheets. And @tradik/xslt-processor 1.3.0, the browser XSLTProcessor replacement, can now hand a 2.0 or 3.0 stylesheet to it when you ask. Nothing changes for anyone who doesn
One person can write software for fifty repositories. Keeping fifty repositories maintained, released and explained is a different job. These are the problems…
Every browser that ever ran XSLT ran version 1.0, the 1999 recommendation. Chrome and Safari used libxslt, Firefox its own TransforMiiX. XSLT 2.0 arrived in 2007 and 3.0 in 2017, with grouping, regular expressions, real functions, maps, JSON and a much stronger XPath, and the browsers never followed
1.8.65 adds a Listen button that uses the reader's own voice engine, and build-time MP3 from a TTS API you choose, with a podcast feed and a plan for when the API is down.
A phone downloads 486 KB of this site's home page, and 24 KB of it is what the generator wrote. The rest is choices. The case for static sites, measured.
A touchpad that died on every resume turned out not to be a suspend bug at all. FreeBSD never started the I2C controller the touchpad is wired to, for three separate reasons.
Drying washing on a line is a weather-sensitive job with no product datasheet. Rain, relative humidity, wind and temperature decide it, which makes it a clean test case for the generic template engine. The laundry profile has no hard limits from a manufacturer, so it never produces STOP on its own.
Standing down a gang because the weather turned is a normal part of the job. Whether it becomes an entitlement or a cost lands almost entirely on what got written down that morning, and by whom. The asymmetry If the main contractor's programme slips and you have nothing in writing, the default assum
A monocouche render needs the wall to stay above 5 °C and dry for the cure period the manufacturer specifies. On an exposed coastal site, one provider showed a dry Tuesday and the other showed 2 mm of drizzle from 14:00. Both were "right" within their own error bars. TradeWeather stores bo
Posts written on tradik.com, and the archive of the blog that ran on pushpanel.io between 2018 and 2020 — infrastructure notes from the work of the time, kept because the problems did not expire with the domain.
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