#ReleaseWednesday — I just released a new version (v8.0.0) of https://thi.ng/vectors, an almost complete rewrite of the package with all of its ~900 vector operations. I've updated the Readme with a section of _potentially_ minor breaking changes, however I expect this to be a seamless upgrade for the vast majority of users...

I've recently written more about the reasons and implications of this update and I'll refer you to those posts instead of repeating them once more (see links below).

Just the top-level changes:

- Replaced dynamic code generation with higher-order templating to be usable with strict content security policies (when deployed online)
- New structure allows for vast majority of functions to have doc strings (and they do now)
- More consistent/less confusing naming for some operations
- Potentially improved tree-shaking and smaller project bundle sizes

Related to this update I've also refactored and fixed some bugs in other packages (e.g. color, geom, matrices). As a result both the color & matrix packages are now also free from dynamic codegen and therefore won't cause any problems with strict CSPs

Should you run into any issues regarding this update, please get in touch (also grateful for any other experience/impact reports... )

More info in these recent posts/threads:

- https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114296442006935718
- https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114319651778770391
- https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114336012068839250

Happy coding!

#ReleaseWednesday Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/block-fs, now with additional multi-command CLI tooling to convert & bundle a local file system tree into a single block-based binary blob (e.g. for bundling assets, or distributing a virtual filesystem as part of a web app, or for snapshot testing, or as bridge for WASM interop etc.)

Also new, the main API now includes a `.readAsObjectURL()` method to wrap files as URLs to binary blobs with associated MIME types, thereby making it trivial to use the virtual filesystem for sourcing stored images and other assets for direct use in the browser...

(Ps. For more context see other recent announcement: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114264980961483146)

#ReleaseWednesday New (old actually, been dormant since 2021) #ThingUmbrella package addition: https://thi.ng/tsne - see [1] and [2] for further info/context...

A little bare bones example showing the solver in action to visualize 1000 random 4D data points:

https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/tsne-colors/

Example source code:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/examples/tsne-colors/src/index.ts

cc/ @anandphilipc

[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114030865988513140
[2] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/114030992180858620