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by nolanl 9y ago
I contribute to Mastodon, an open-source federated social network based on the OStatus set of W3C standards. Most of my work has been on making the web frontend faster, trying to add the kind of fit-and-finish that proprietary apps like Twi
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by nolanl 9y ago
Maybe it's more accurate to say that, when you're on Patreon, part of your job suddenly becomes a "hustle"? E.g. in Evan's case I get the feeling that without a constant stream of conference appearances and blog pos
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by nolanl 10y ago
(Author of the post and Microsoft Edge team member here.) This is actually an active area of discussion for browser vendors, and we're all experimenting with "interventions" that are designed to benefit users at the expense o
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by nolanl 10y ago
(Author of the post here.) It may depend on your OS or your Firefox version! :) I spoke with some Firefox folks after publishing this piece, and it turns out they've fixed some things in Firefox 52, notably for touch-enabled Windows la
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by nolanl 10y ago
As a teenager I came across the eclectic medley of Anthony Burgess novels in my school's library, and fell in love. They're all so vastly different and weird and yet they made for great reading: - The Wanting Seed: sci-fi about an
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by nolanl 10y ago
(I'm the author of the article you cite.) For the record, Chrome has been working on improving their postMessage performance as of M57 [1], so my benchmark should probably be re-run. Assuming they end up in the same ballpark as Safari
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by nolanl 10y ago
In principle yes any CouchDB/PouchDB database can sync with one another because they all share the same protocol, but OTOH I've seen very few examples of apps that offer users a simple "export to your own CouchDB/PouchDB
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by nolanl 10y ago
(PouchDB contributor here.) Just a quick note that slow replication is one of the things that is largely fixed in CouchDB 2.0 thanks to the new _bulk_get API ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2310 ) an
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by nolanl 10y ago
(PouchDB contributor here.) There are actually several layers of "cache" inside of a browser, including the traditional HTTP cache (which is global) as well as the site storage, which includes stuff like IndexedDB, WebSQL, LocalSt
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by nolanl 10y ago
Yup, exactly. We use JSON.parse inside of a try/catch and then fall back to vuvuzela ( https://github.com/nolanlawson/vuvuzela ) which is a non-recursive JSON parser in cases of stack overflows (here's the code
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Progressive enhancement isn't dead, but it smells funny(nolanlawson.com)
15 points by nolanl 10y ago|0 comments
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by nolanl 10y ago
(I also work on PouchDB.) For "conflict-free sync," according to the docs, this appears to be last-write-wins along with a special case for deletes: https://realm.io/docs/realm-object-server/#conflict-res
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by nolanl 10y ago
Thanks, I'm that person. :) I tried to write it as a "missing manual" for Couch/Pouch, and had a lot of fun in the process! It needs some updates for newer stuff, though: pouchdb-find, custom builds, Chrome DevTools stor
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by nolanl 10y ago
Sounds like I misunderstood. Thanks for the correction!
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by nolanl 10y ago
It's not so much about blocking as it is about delaying the module waterfall. E.g. a module that did `await new Promise(_ => setTimeout(_, 5000))` at the top would prevent any of its dependents from being loaded for 5 seconds.
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PouchDB 6.0 released(pouchdb.com)
5 points by nolanl 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Slow-deps – show which dependencies are slowest to npm install(npmjs.com)
3 points by nolanl 10y ago|0 comments
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by nolanl 10y ago
(rollupify author here.) It works if you configure Rollup to use a plugin like https://github.com/rollup/rollup-plugin-node-resolve , and it works best if the third-party packages also expose jsnext:main or the new &quo
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by nolanl 10y ago
Oh yeah and also - "modules" !== "packages." ;) Not sure many folks are really counting the number of _modules_ in their code as well as packages.
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by nolanl 10y ago
As I say in the post, I'm not sure it's safe to say "I have _n_ number of modules, therefore my overhead is the same as the '_n_ modules' benchmark." For runtime perf it's about the total number of require
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by nolanl 10y ago
Some advice I would give to open-source maintainers, based on my own experience and also advice I've received from veterans: - take breaks. go AWOL for 2 weeks. it clears the mind - ask the user to provide a test case to reproduce. if
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The Progress of Web Apps: Progressive Web Apps on Windows(medium.com)
4 points by nolanl 10y ago|0 comments
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by nolanl 10y ago
Yay, thanks for your comment! :) I look forward to proving you wrong. wags bushy tail, bats bright eyes
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On Joining Microsoft Edge and Moving to Seattle(nolanlawson.com)
4 points by nolanl 10y ago|2 comments
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by nolanl 10y ago
(Author here.) Actually it's fairly easy to swap out npm for another package manager. Under the hood, npm is just CouchDB, meaning you can replicate from npm by simply clicking the "replicate" button in CouchDB's Futon U
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Introducing PouchDB custom builds(pouchdb.com)
36 points by nolanl 10y ago|4 comments
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by nolanl 11y ago
(I'm the author of Pokedex.org.) Unfortunately it's a limitation of the Android platform; you can't add arbitrary launch activities at runtime. So the Chrome team is unable to fix this AFAIK. However, you could imagine a futu
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by nolanl 11y ago
Let's say you have one big contenteditable, so there's only one field, and it's pointless to have "previous," "next", and "done" buttons. Or just any situation where you don't think the user
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by nolanl 11y ago
In case anyone is wondering, this plugin hides the "accessibility bar," i.e. the keyboard bar that appears when you tap on a form element in iOS: https://nolanwlawson.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/accessibi
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Composers and audiences(pocketjavascript.com)
4 points by nolanl 11y ago|0 comments

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