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Carter Sande
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Carter Sande's personal blog at carter.sande.duodecima.technology covers programming and web. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Browsers are pretty good at loading pages”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on web performance. It quotes the post's point that the HTML version of Gmail uses fewer network resources and returns to interaction sooner than the fully reloaded version.
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.
Professional computer programmer and recovering children's book character.
Most-linked posts?
- Browsers are pretty good at loading pages5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-07-21
- Every JavaScript bundler handles inline <script> tags wrong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-05
What Hacker News says?
> Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction. Reminds me of the article "Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out" [1]. It's really shocking that we've got technology that from an a priori standpoint has the capability of making web browsing faster, yet consistently due to poor development p…
Comment linking /javascript-page-navigation/
on “Towards a unified theory of web performance”Submitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages as a story · 592 points
HN discussionBun's bundler claimed the bottom place in my recent analysis of how JavaScript tools handle generating inline script tags[1], because despite making lofty promises about being able to bundle applications into standalone HTML files, it produced a baffling combination of spurious syntax errors and miscompilations when presented with tricky code. I'm pretty sure the version I tested was the Zig one (have they made a st…
Comment linking /inline-script-pitfalls/
on “My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite”Submitted My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network as a story · 361 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every JavaScript bundler handles inline <script> tags wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every JavaScript bundler handles inline script tags wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Hitched to “Love Plus” [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out (2019) as a story · 1 points
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