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This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some rankin
by abhinai 8mo ago
This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.
- sampli 8mo agoYeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling
- rwl 8mo agoPresumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I think it’s pretty lightweight! For comparison, the Instagram iOS app is 468.9mb, more than ten times the size…
- repeekad 8mo agoNow imagine how big the builds are for Instagram's server side doomscrollable feed algorithm, given their inverse incentives to this project.
- isqueiros 8mo ago40mb is way too much for a JS bundle... Even with a framework you could do this with 5mb or less.
- embedding-shape 8mo ago> you could do this with 5mb or less How quick the times change... Back in my days, we put the limit on bundles being maximum 1MB, and it felt large even then.
- isqueiros 8mo agoDon't get me wrong. 5mb is a lot for this, yes. This app, coded with love and interest could easily be made under 1mb.
- rebane2001 8mo agoThis app IS made in under 1mb. The entire app, including all the assets minus all the actual Wikipedia data, is 21kB (no minification or compression). And all of it is in a single html file with human-readable code.
- rebane2001 8mo agoThe 40MB of data is Wikipedia data, the site itself is 21kB.
- modzu 8mo agoprobably vibe coded
- rebane2001 8mo agoI wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete. All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.
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- bluebarbet 8mo agoI do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.
- rebane2001 8mo agoI made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.
- latexr 8mo agoThank you for spending your time and effort on something fun you believe in and that explores a point about human nature, and for showing we often underestimate how much we can get done in so little time on our own when we set our attention to it.
- latexr 8mo agoYou’re not wasting time by being deliberate about what you build and having to choose what to dedicate yourself to. Vibe coding is not synonymous with productivity, and a lot of what we call “productive” today is just a different form of wasting life that is more socially acceptable.
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- blinding-streak 8mo agoYeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see: https://www.wikitok.io/ https://www.wikitok.io/
- aizk 8mo agoThanks! That's me :)