Jonathan Frere

Most-linked posts?

1. Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-07
2. The Helix Text Editor (2024)
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-13
3. Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-02
4. Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-21

What Hacker News says?

1. MrJohz · 2025-07-19

   The homepage for my blog is apparently 9.95kB, which includes all styles, some JS, and the content. There is an additional 22kB font file that breaks the rule, but when I first designed the site I used built-in browser fonts only, and it looked fine. There are no images on the homepage apart from a couple of inlined SVG icons in the footer. Looking at the posts themselves, they vary in size but the content/styles/JS…

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   on “A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)”
2. bj-rn · 2025-03-11

   Submitted Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours as a story · 126 points

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3. MrJohz · 2025-05-18

   I wrote about this last year, it's one of my favourite bits of this spec: https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/disposables-in-javascript/#... TL;DR: the problem if you just pass the DisposableStack that you're working with is that it's either a `using` variable (in which case it will be disposed automatically when your function finishes, even if you've not actually finished with the stack), or it isn't (in which case if…

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   on “JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management”
4. gidellav · 2025-09-08

   Submitted The Helix Text Editor (2024) as a story · 112 points

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5. MrJohz · 2025-02-23

   This is a nice idea! I ended up doing something similar, but statically, and searching for discussions dynamically rather than using a single hardcoded thread. Essentially it's a script that searches for recent posts linking to my domain name on Reddit, HN, etc, and then updates a file with the URL of that post and some information about when it was made and how many posts there are. Then there's a Hugo template tha…

   Comment linking /posts/adding-discussions/

   on “Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog”
6. Bogdanp · 2025-09-21

   Submitted Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints as a story · 47 points

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7. MrJohz · 2025-05-26

   I think the point is that you can already do all of that with hand-wired dependency injection. I wrote about an example of that a couple of years ago here: https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/how-i-do-dependency-injecti... This has the advantage that you don't need an extra framework/dependency to handle DI, and it means that dependencies are usually much easier to trace (because you've literally got all the code in yo…

   Comment linking /posts/how-i-do-dependency-injection-with-closures/

   on “Dependency injection frameworks add confusion”
8. todsacerdoti · 2025-02-27

   Submitted Why Are Jujutsu's ID Prefixes So Short? as a story · 11 points

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9. todsacerdoti · 2025-07-02

   Submitted Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment as a story · 7 points

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10. signa11 · 2024-12-15

    Submitted Helix: Why (and How) I Use It as a story · 6 points

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11. rbanffy · 2025-07-05

    Submitted Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment as a story · 4 points

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12. todsacerdoti · 2024-09-26

    Submitted 10 Years of Programming as a story · 4 points

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13. thunderbong · 2025-09-23

    Submitted Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints as a story · 3 points

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14. RGBCube · 2024-12-14

    Submitted Helix: Why (and How) I Use It as a story · 3 points

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15. MrJohz · 2024-06-24

    Submitted Why Test? as a story · 3 points

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16. todsacerdoti · 2024-12-13

    Submitted Helix: Why (and How) I Use It as a story · 2 points

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17. thunderbong · 2024-05-06

    Submitted New Disposable APIs in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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18. mpweiher · 2026-03-08

    Submitted Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms as a story · 1 points

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19. fanf2 · 2026-03-08

    Submitted Pushing and pulling: three reactivity algorithms as a story · 1 points

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20. frogulis · 2026-03-08

    Submitted Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms as a story · 1 points

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21. todsacerdoti · 2026-03-07

    Submitted Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms as a story · 1 points

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22. pavel_lishin · 2025-07-03

    Submitted Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment as a story · 1 points

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