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Joe Schafer

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Joe Schafer's personal blog at joe.schafer.dev covers programming and data. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2020–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Posts on browser performance, including a technical look at LastPass delaying page rendering by about 70ms and the author's switch to 1Password. Commenters cite it as their source for that finding.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. It seems you missed an opportunity (BTW, is that what they call "content marketing"?). Had you left your VM running a little while longer, you might've noticed something else in your Netflow data: yet another service calling home to Canonical twice a day. I wish I were joking about this but... the (likely) "primary" reason for this is so that they can show ads to users when they log in -- ads for things like TV show…

    Comment linking /chatty-ubuntu-motd/

    on “Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain”
  2. Submitted Procella’s Analytical Column Store as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. > I have to use LastPass. I recently switched from LastPass to 1Password because of the added latency from Lastpass. Lastpass adds about 70ms to first contentful paint on example.com. 1Password, on the other hand, runs after the painting is done so it doesn't block rendering. I polished up a blog draft I had lying around about switching to 1Password: https://joe.schafer.dev/passing-lastpass/ > I'd be much more inter…

    Comment linking /passing-lastpass/

    on “How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance”
  4. I also switched from Lastpass to 1Password. I did a mildly deep technical investigation into why Lastpass is slow on the browser. I found LastPass delays all page rendering by about 70ms. https://joe.schafer.dev/passing-lastpass/

    Comment linking /passing-lastpass/

    on “Changes to LastPass Free”

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