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balpha.de
Personal blog · balpha.deprogrammingweb
balpha.de is a personal blog at balpha.de about programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “JavaScript concurrency and locking the HTML5 localStorage”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a writeup and code on a LockableStorage interface for using localStorage atomically across windows. One commenter found it thorough.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- JavaScript concurrency and locking the HTML5 localStorage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-07
What Hacker News says?
If you want to use localStorage atomically, I found this writeup and code on a LockableStorage interface to be very thorough: http://balpha.de/2012/03/javascript-concurrency-and-locking-...
Comment linking /2012/03/javascript-concurrency-and-locking-the-html5-localstorage/
on “Inter-window messaging using localStorage”Submitted An unexcited look at browser sniffing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript concurrency and locking the HTML5 localStorage as a story · 1 points
HN discussion