2025

Migrating PodLP from JavaScript to TypeScript using OpenCode

Getting AI to do the heavy lifting and migrate a substantial front-end application to TypeScript

Rotating content daily with Cloudfront Functions

How to use Cloudfront Functions to rotate content daily at (roughly) midnight local time.

Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones

Learn why flip phones still matter in 2025, and how you can build and launch web apps for these tiny devices.

How PodLP Unlocks 3B+ Listeners Beyond Smartphones

PodcastingTech Show host Mathew Passy chats with Tom Barrasso, founder and developer of PodLP, the innovative app that brings podcasts to feature phones (“dumb phones”) around the world. If you’ve ever assumed your listeners all have iPhones or Androids, this episode will seriously open your eyes!

Remote Browsers and the Feature Phone Market with Tom Barrasso

Matt sits down with Tom Barrasso from Cloud Phone to explore why flip phones are still relevant in 2025. They discuss the rise of digital detox, who’s using feature phones today, and how developers can still build apps for low-spec devices. From KaiOS and Cloud Phone to nostalgia and screen-time reduction—this is a deep dive into the flip phone revival and the tech powering it.

Feature phones, remote browsers and connecting the next billion users

Explore the opportunities and challenges of building web applications for feature phones powered by remote Chromium browsers. Dive into what makes feature phones appealing in certain regions, how cloud-rendered browsers change the developer experience, and the practical aspects of working with these platforms from API support and navigation patterns to PWAs and future-facing capabilities.

Remote Browsers and the Feature Phone Market with Tom Barrasso

Explore the world of feature phones, how remote browsers make it possible to run modern apps on these low-end devices, and the unique challenges and opportunities for developers in this space.

Millions Could Be Using Your App on Flip Phones

In markets like India, sales of 4G feature phones are growing quickly as network operators transition from 2G to 4G & 5G. With just a few changes, your web app can be in the hands of millions on T9 feature phones.

Wasm on feature phones with Cloud Phone's Thomas Barrasso

Feature phones? Yes, they still make them. And they run Wasm! In this WasmAssembly podcast, Thomas Steiner hosts Thomas Barrasso from CloudMosa to talk about the Cloud Phone platform and what it takes to run WebAssembly on tiny feature phones by streaming Web apps from a remote server that runs Chromium.

2019

Why does JavaScript have -0?

Why so negative zero? JavaScript has two zeroes and they’re both the same and different

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