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Not only is the content great on that site, the performance of it is absolutely spectacular. It's amazing how much people will jump to new fangled solutions whe

by dchuk 8y ago

Not only is the content great on that site, the performance of it is absolutely spectacular. It's amazing how much people will jump to new fangled solutions when this site is a great example of what a well tuned Rails app can pull off from a UX perspective.

cosmiccartel 8y ago
It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?" tone.
- agrinman 8y ago
  I think the content is getting better, and will continue to improve with time. It makes sense that it starts out geared towards young/new developers.
- luigi23 8y ago
  Yeah, I kinda feel the same way about the content. It's like 'coding, not programming', 'what was your biggest achievement today? Mine was no conflicts ;)' and other silly wholesome comments. But yeah, the performance of the site is phenomenal.
- saudioger 8y ago
  I feel like all the popular posts are from guys who tuck their collared shirts into their jeans.
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manigandham 8y ago
It's not about tuning, the site just preloads content when you mouseover links, using a background service worker. That's pretty "new fangled" compared to most sites.
- bhalp1 8y ago
  It's a bit of column A, a bit of column B. Mouse context is not always available. Tuning + preloading.
YorickPeterse 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but the homepage takes 2.74 seconds to load. I wouldn't exactly call that spectacular.
onion2k 8y ago
well tuned Rails app ...with some JS and Preact.
austinjp 8y ago
> the performance of it is absolutely spectacular Hmm you're not wrong. Re the other comments here about preloading from mouse over events, it's very snappy on mobile too, so there's something else going on as well. Very gratifying to see it's using Preact, since I've just chosen that for a project over React, largely due to smaller bundle sizes. Another post on HN today about Amp makes me feel it's the 90s all over again, with people shaving kB off here and there - and that's no bad thing!

by dchuk 8y ago

cosmiccartel 8y ago

It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?" tone.

agrinman 8y ago
I think the content is getting better, and will continue to improve with time. It makes sense that it starts out geared towards young/new developers.
luigi23 8y ago
Yeah, I kinda feel the same way about the content. It's like 'coding, not programming', 'what was your biggest achievement today? Mine was no conflicts ;)' and other silly wholesome comments. But yeah, the performance of the site is phenomenal.
saudioger 8y ago
I feel like all the popular posts are from guys who tuck their collared shirts into their jeans.

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manigandham 8y ago

It's not about tuning, the site just preloads content when you mouseover links, using a background service worker. That's pretty "new fangled" compared to most sites.

bhalp1 8y ago
It's a bit of column A, a bit of column B. Mouse context is not always available. Tuning + preloading.

YorickPeterse 8y ago

Maybe it's just me, but the homepage takes 2.74 seconds to load. I wouldn't exactly call that spectacular.

onion2k 8y ago

well tuned Rails app ...with some JS and Preact.

austinjp 8y ago

> the performance of it is absolutely spectacular Hmm you're not wrong. Re the other comments here about preloading from mouse over events, it's very snappy on mobile too, so there's something else going on as well. Very gratifying to see it's using Preact, since I've just chosen that for a project over React, largely due to smaller bundle sizes. Another post on HN today about Amp makes me feel it's the 90s all over again, with people shaving kB off here and there - and that's no bad thing!