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21st January 2024 - Link Blog

NYT Flash-based visualizations work again. The New York Times are using the open source Ruffle Flash emulator - built using Rust, compiled to WebAssembly - to get their old archived data visualization interactives working again.

Posted 21st January 2024 at 5:58 am

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