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It brings me genuine joy to use websites like HN or Rock Auto that haven't been React-ified. The lack of frustration I feel when using fast interfaces is noticeable. I don't really…

I think the parent comment means "commits" in the sense of the actual changeset; not just the message.

I deployed my first non-trivial Deno app to production in 2023. There were some teething issues with learning to keep the lock file in sync, especially in a repo with multiple entr…

Can you clarify what you mean by "version control of branches"? Branches in Git are just labels of objects. Are you talking about having a history of which objects a branch has pre…

The web is getting faster, yes. This manifests as a constant (albeit slow) downward trend in global aggregate metrics. We think this trend is mostly due to Google pushing performan…

Weird that in the process of "restoring free speech", Musk permabanned dozens of journalists who had ever been critical of his companies.

All vehicles in NZ pay road user charges; EVs have just been exempt to encourage uptake. There are RUC weight classes but they only exist to separate light ( =3500kg) vehicles rath…

Hopefully you realise how lucky you are, and that your situation is the exception in the USA rather than the standard.

I've had the opposite experience with Macbooks. WiFi randomly dropping out, battery dying overnight while the laptop is closed, external display settings not being persisted, rando…

Google's interview process lends itself to finding people who really want to work at Google. Nobody would go through that process to work for a small unknown company, even for the …

> If I was gonna bet, my money would be on the lockdowns not doing anything. The virus did what it did no matter how hard humans tried to control it Tell that to New Zealand, who h…

Whoa, I had no idea they'd fixed the inlining-by-size - thanks for pointing that out!

I can't tell if this is satire or not, but I'm assuming it's genuine. Compression is not a replacement for minification. The client still needs to parse and run the uncompressed so…

Git commit hashes _are_ deterministic. Run `git cat-file -p ` on your two hashes. The timestamp in the committer field will be different. That is why the hash changed.

I've been working in the web performance monitoring space ( https://speedcurve.com/ ) for 3 years now, and the 3 years prior to that I was doing a lot of performance work at the BB…

Is this a shitpost? I honestly can't tell. You start off by saying you've only ever visited SF and then go on to make a load of generalisations as if you know SF like the back of y…

Chill out, friend. Parent comment kindly suggested the use of a gender neutral noun to make the passage more inclusive. No one is forcing you to use nonexclusionary language. If yo…

Doesn't Android have the same problem? If your app isn't in the Play Store, it may as well not exist.

I'm not associated with them at all, but Fathom are worth looking into if you want an analytics platform that respects user privacy: https://usefathom.com/

> Here’s an idea... if you don’t like what somebody writes online, don’t read it. The problem isn't that people "don't like" what elected officials say. It's that people often take…

I left NZ in 2011 and came back recently. It's still more or less the same place I remember. If you are an active outdoorsy type, I don't think there are many places in the world t…

If you think the presence of a power grid is the same as having power 24/7, you need to spend some time in other parts of the world. In some places you are lucky to have power for …

> We actually created this as an internal tool because there wasn't anything that would give you a clear indication of site performance from DNS lookup to connect to TTFB to page r…

The touchpad on my current gen Dell XPS 13 is superb on a stock Ubuntu install. I'd love to know how much of the "bad touchpad" reputation that Linux has is down to low quality har…

I'm not disagreeing that wood burners have a negative effect on air quality, but there are plenty of valid reasons to burn wood for heating. Not having access to a stable uninterru…