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Jacob Deichert

Personal blog · jakedeichert.com/blogprogramming

Jacob Deichert's personal blog at jakedeichert.com covers programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Personal blog that HN commenters mention as a live example of a flash of unstyled text (FOUT) in Chrome 50, and as a site moved from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages. No comment judges the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Jacob Deichert is a Staff Software Developer based in British Columbia, Canada. Jacob enjoys designing APIs and microservice architecture, developing backend services, building tools, and automating processes to be more efficient. Technologies he works with include Rust, WebAssembly, Go, Docker, Pos

What Hacker News says?

  1. I've migrated my blog [1] and another landing page from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages so far and have been pretty happy with it! @rita3ko I would love the ability to disable automatic preview builds. My "production" branch which Cloudflare Pages deploys from has a /public directory which I ship, but my other branches are not structured the same and therefore cause build failures. I just don't need preview builds for m…

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    on “Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available”
  2. Submitted Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS as a story · 186 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm also working on a React + Markdown static site generator heavily inspired by Jekyll. For the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with how I could render both React + Markdown into HTML and minimize the numerous edge cases that occur during the build process. For example, ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(page) will remove all line breaks in the HTML output. The problem with that is pre/code elements will h…

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    on “Redux Blog Example”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Let It Snow – A snowy customizable ecard as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yeah... I probably should have commented that earlier. If anyone wants to see an example of FOUT, you might be able to on my website with Chrome 50. I am currently experiencing this and then I found this bug report. Reload a few times if you don't see it at first. http://jakedeichert.com edit: FOUT usually means a fallback font is briefly shown before flickering and rendering a loaded web font. edit: As people have…

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    on “FOUT is back in Chrome 50”
  6. Submitted RSS Feeds and Slack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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