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by vlucas 5y ago
I recently switched away from AT&T, in large part because of their horrible customer service. This article really resonates. In early 2019, I added a new line to my plan in what was supposed to be a "free" phone (I was assured
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by vlucas 5y ago
Hey - creator of BudgetSheet here ( https://www.budgetsheet.net/ ). These formulas are great! I am currently working on adding more charts, graphs, and formulas to my product. These formulas and handy to know about for a net
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by vlucas 5y ago
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/coOQ5
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by vlucas 5y ago
We custom wrote our own Babel plugin + some runtime functions that handle this. It changes the way we import our components and we have to choose async vs. server rendered component at import time, so that is the main trade-off. We will be
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by vlucas 5y ago
... LCP is specifically mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of the article, in addition to the conclusion quote: > The end result was that increasing the size of our thumbnail images raised our performance score by reducing our LCP score
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by vlucas 5y ago
We are actually working on this! Just because we did some small fixes doesn't mean we aren't working on something bigger :). The current app is a full isomorphic SPA with React + Redux. It's a beast, and around 80% of the cod
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by vlucas 5y ago
This is impossible to achieve in the real world. Load times have a lot of variance. Our tests were performance neutral after the change. In a vacuum yes more data = longer load, but that's not how it plays out in a real browser. Things
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by vlucas 5y ago
I agree with the premise here, but we literally added ~100px to the width of our really small thumbnail images that were hard to see with most modern screen resolutions. People come to the website to view property photos. They were literall
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by vlucas 5y ago
Because a 230px thumbnail is hard to see and was unnecessarily small on most modern devices and screen resolutions. It's the reason we changed it in ApartmentGuide.com too.
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by vlucas 5y ago
It didn't make the site measurably slower. We specifically tested this. We already optimize in other ways and lazy-load most of the property images. The only ones that load right away are the first 3 property images in the list.
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by vlucas 5y ago
The whole map, yes - and it still is the largest element on the page by far. The LCP score was being based on each map tile .
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by vlucas 5y ago
This "stupid thing" was the right thing to do for end users. They come to our website to see pictures of properties they are looking for. We just made them ~100px wider. They were literally smaller than a 256x256 map tile. It also
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We increased our Lighthouse score by making our images larger(blog.rentpathcode.com)
180 points by vlucas 5y ago|83 comments
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by vlucas 5y ago
You can't just generalize like this. There is no standard price, as it is highly dependent on your geographic location. Before COVID I just built a fully custom house in the OKC area for $142/sq. ft. including all my upgrades (bas
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by vlucas 5y ago
This. I am in this exact position right now. Love my job and my team and am in a very high paid position, but am trying to grow something on the side. I am beginning to see some real traction with https://www.budgetsheet.net and
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by vlucas 5y ago
I think this is encapsulated in the point I am making with that sentence. It may not be the work itself that people will remember, but it's how you do it. If you are consistently someone who can be relied upon to get things done and co
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by vlucas 5y ago
Good point on the "Never" phrase. I updated the wording of the article to soften it a bit. I too have been in a situation where the best I could do was just get out as quickly as possible and try not to make things worse for mysel
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by vlucas 5y ago
It doesn't always have to be amicable and friendly - sometimes you just have to find something new, quit, and move on. I would say in these cases, just try to control your reactions as much as you can in order not to make things worse
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by vlucas 5y ago
True, and this has happened to me as well. I just started looking for a new job and quit once I had one lined up. Given the circumstances, it was as amicably as it could have been, but it definitely wasn't my best exit. I just tried my
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by vlucas 5y ago
Who said I wrote this as if it's a contrarian opinion? It's just good advice. I don't know why everyone here seems to be focusing on the negative side of this and responding to this as if those with terrible bosses and bad wo
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by vlucas 5y ago
Maybe this phrase doesn't work will in all geographies, but the specific term "burning a bridge" in this context means "leaving on a bad note". Things like yelling, loosing control, flipping off the boss, etc. Thing
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Work Hard and Don't Burn Bridges(vancelucas.com)
25 points by vlucas 5y ago|15 comments
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by vlucas 5y ago
Your points are true, but UUID is built-in to most databases, and thus the most easy to use and rely upon everywhere (i.e. "id" uuid NOT NULL DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4()). That's why it gets the most use now, and will continue
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by vlucas 5y ago
The main advantage with UUIDs (and why I now use them widely everywhere) is with relations, foreign keys, multi-region setups, replication, backups, and the ease of restoring those backups. With sequential IDs, the database state is pretty
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Public Library Insights One Year into the Covid-19 Pandemic(whofi.com)
2 points by vlucas 5y ago|0 comments
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by vlucas 5y ago
Are you okay with staying in the same field so you can still leverage all your experience? I recently (Dec. 2020) switched to Engineering Manager from Engineering Lead, and it's been a pretty welcome change over all. I was pretty weary
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by vlucas 5y ago
Yes, almost all US housing is timber frames (either 2x4 or 2x6 studs), but the exterior veneer depends greatly on where you live in the US. Where I live in Oklahoma City, almost all of our houses are brick or stone on the outside. It's
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by vlucas 6y ago
Yes. Last year I made an app that _kinda_ does this ( https://www.seamless.cloud ). It solves the security issue by making you define the query first in Seamless, and then you get a REST API endpoint to run that query, with opti
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Show HN: SheetQuery: An ORM for Google Sheets and Google Apps Script(budgetsheet.net)
8 points by vlucas 6y ago|1 comments
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by vlucas 6y ago
Vercel is the new Heroku. Same ease of use, MUCH better architecture and cost structure.

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