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Henrik Joreteg
Personal blog · joreteg.com/blogwebprogramming
Henrik Joreteg's personal blog at joreteg.com covers web and programming. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Henrik Joreteg's posts on web apps, JavaScript performance costs and JS frameworks on mobile. One commenter points to his talk and post on the evolution of web apps as worth checking out.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-22
- Project Fugu: A new hope for The Web as an app platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-11
- Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-09
- The viability of JavaScript frameworks on mobile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-20
- Improving Redux state transfer performance with JSON.parse(), a quick case study2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
What Hacker News says?
> This is why the web lost on mobile: when presented with competing platforms that were actually designed instead of organically grown, developers almost universally chose to go native. almost universally? mobile dev has enough inefficiencies and complications that, for many use cases, quite a few people today wonder if native is preferable to mobile web, especially PWAs. i mean, look at the discussion here, 12 days…
Comment linking /blog/betting-on-the-web
on “It’s time to kill the web app”Submitted I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS as a story · 841 points
HN discussion> They mean whether Safari is as backwards and holding the web back as IE6 was for ages. Safari is holding back the mobile web the exact same way IE held back the desktop web for the exact same reason: native apps. > while Safari was... at the top of the heap Lol? I know very few (none?) web developers who uses Safari as their primary target browser. ES6 support or not. > cherry picked pro-Safari blog post https://j…
Comment linking /blog/why-i-switched-to-android
on “Introducing Safari Technology Preview”Submitted Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs as a story · 242 points
HN discussionHenrik Joreteg has a recent blog post on this: https://joreteg.com/blog/improving-redux-state-transfer-perf... (note caveats/questions at the end of the article)
Comment linking /blog/improving-redux-state-transfer-performance
on “The Cost of JavaScript in 2019”Submitted The viability of JavaScript frameworks on mobile as a story · 195 points
HN discussionHenrik Joreteg has a related talk[1] and post[2] on the evolution of web apps that are worth checking out. [1]: https://speakerdeck.com/henrikjoreteg/the-evolution-of-the-w... [2]: https://joreteg.com/blog/viability-of-js-frameworks-on-mobil...
Comment linking /blog/viability-of-js-frameworks-on-mobile
on “JavaScript web apps considered valuable”Submitted Architecting UIs for Change as a story · 130 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Betting on the web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Fugu: A new hope for The Web as an app platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Fugu: A New Hope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Redux state transfer performance with JSON.parse(), a quick case study as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing web apps on phones (for real) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tech industry conversation (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
