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Magnus Skog
Personal blog · mskog.com/postsprogrammingweb
Magnus Skog writes Mskog, a personal blog at mskog.com about programming and web. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Performance Tips for Ruby on Rails”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on Turbolinks and faster page loads in browsers. Comments discuss how Turbolinks handles link clicks and prefetching, and cite the posts as reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ruby on Rails, self-hosting, performance, learning
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/instant-page-loads-with-turbolinks-and-prefetch/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
- Performance Tips for Ruby on Rails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-27
What Hacker News says?
I checked the README and it never mentions mouseover > Turbolinks intercepts all clicks on <a href> links to the same domain. When you click an eligible link, Turbolinks prevents the browser from following it. Instead, Turbolinks changes the browser’s URL using the History API, requests the new page using XMLHttpRequest, and then renders the HTML response. I don't have a Turbolinks application to check but I found t…
Comment linking /posts/instant-page-loads-with-turbolinks-and-prefetch/
on “Browsers are pretty good at loading pages”Submitted Blogging with Gatsby, Ghost CMS and Cloudflare Workers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCapRover has support for multi-server deployments using Docker Swarm. It also has a nice dashboard with built-in monitoring and such. There is a marketplace of sorts with single-click deployment for certain applications. Dokku on the other hand has support for buildpack deployment as well as Procfile support for running multiple processes. I prefer Dokku. The main reason is that I only need a single server for my ap…
Comment linking /posts/heroku-vs-self-hosted-paas/
on “CapRover: Build your own PaaS”Submitted Hetzner Cloud Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTurbolinks is amazing - for small teams, rapid development scenarios I think it's an underrated (at least outside of Rails) solution. I've been using it with Django lately with great results. Combining it with Prefetch can yield even faster apparent user experience (see https://www.mskog.com/posts/instant-page-loads-with-turbolin... )
Comment linking /posts/instant-page-loads-with-turbolinks-and-prefetch/
on “Making a (Long-Winded) Case for Turbolinks”Submitted Self-Hosting Serverless with OpenFaaS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby on Rails to Elixir: Testing APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-hosted tools for web development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Tips for Ruby on Rails • Magnus Skog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Tips for Ruby on Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussion