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Nicholas Ray
Personal blog · nray.dev/blogwebprogramming
Nicholas Ray's personal blog at nray.dev covers web and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its web performance writing, such as a thread on cutting Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time. One commenter praised how fast the site loads and asked about its Astro stack.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web development tips that improve page speed, user happiness, and business success
What Hacker News says?
Unrelated, but I love how fast your website loads. I looked at the source code, and it looks like it uses Astro. I debated whether to go with Astro or Next.js for my new blog, but because I've not had experience with the new React server components, I decided to try Next.js. I've had a goal of making it have the least bloat possible, so it is kinda interesting to compare these side by side now. I picked random two p…
Comment linking /blog/using-media-queries-in-javascript/
on “300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time”Submitted Building a more robust Wikipedia interface by spotting the differences (2023) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time as a story · 2 points
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