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Genius Engineering
Company blog · genius.engineering · on HN as wwarnerandrewprogrammingweb
Genius Engineering is the company blog at genius.engineering, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on static hoisting, a caching-style technique. One commenter doubts the post's terminology and metaphors and compares the idea to page-level caching and Heroku's routing mesh.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Sounds like page-level caching, but they use weird terminology and metaphors. Is this another Heroku "routing mesh" gate in the making? https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/heroku-admits-to-performan... https://genius.engineering/herokus-ugly-secret/
Comment linking /herokus-ugly-secret/
on “Static Hoisting”Submitted Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq as a story · 206 points
HN discussionSubmitted An audio message improved our conversion rate by more than 50% as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weighing your options: tie breakers and rounding poll results to 100 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eliminating Swift Callback Hell with a 100-Line Futures Library as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PSA: IE requires all four arguments to document.createTreeWalker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing CharlockHolmes on Heroku cedar-14 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion