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Parashuram's blog is a personal blog at blog.nparashuram.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Using Webworkers to make React faster”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on web workers, such as a 2016 experiment moving React's logic into a worker, and a 2011 article on developing Windows 8 Metro apps. Commenters cite them as references.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Webworkers to make React faster4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-02-10
- A renderer for ReactJS using WebWorkers to run expensive VirtualDOM calculations4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-12-02
- Developing My First Windows 8 App - My Experience2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-26
What Hacker News says?
Unblackout wikipedia bookmarklet - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2012/01/wikipedia-unblackout.htm...
Comment linking /2012/01/wikipedia-unblackout.html
on “Wikipedia blackout page”Submitted Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome and Opera as a story · 101 points
HN discussionVirtual DOM makes rendering fast, but it has extra costs in eventing and in javascript timers. Virtual DOM is not free IMHO. Some quantitative results - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2015/03/performance-comparison-o...
Comment linking /2015/03/performance-comparison-on-javascript.html
on “Is ReactJS really fast?”Submitted Time Travel Debugging with Create-React-native-app and VSCode as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI tried to quantify the performance numbers - and react does show virtual DOM rendering improvements, but eventing is expensive. http://blog.nparashuram.com/2015/03/performance-comparison-o...
Comment linking /2015/03/performance-comparison-on-javascript.html
on “Is ReactJS really fast?”Submitted Jquery plugin for IndexedDB (Database in the browser) API as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's been some experiments with moving React's logic into a web worker, but the main one I know of was a couple years back : http://blog.nparashuram.com/2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make... . Would be interesting to try updating that.
Comment linking /2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make-react-faster.html
on “WorkerDom – The Same DOM API and Frameworks You Know, but in a Web Worker”Submitted Google Wave Phishing Hack as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can use this same tech to do time travel debugging in React Native apps - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2016/08/time-travel-debugging-wi...
Comment linking /2016/08/time-travel-debugging-with-reactnative.html
on “Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js”Submitted Performance analysis of Twitter Bootstrap over the last 2 years as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI did something similar for React - and here is a blog post about what exactly is happening - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make...
Comment linking /2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make-react-faster.html
on “Preact rendering in a web worker”Submitted Flash is "dead". How to write a boomarklet to manipulate HTML5 Video and Canvas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe performance difference is noticable. I did React into a Web worker, and here are the performance results - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make... Some of the other uses typically are - sort of flow control between the thread and the worker, so that only sufficient VDOM operations are sent across the thread. This basically leaves the UI thread to other things like GIF animations, redraw U…
Comment linking /2016/02/using-webworkers-to-make-react-faster.html
on “Preact rendering in a web worker”Submitted A renderer for ReactJS using WebWorkers to run expensive VirtualDOM calculations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWeb workers can win you huge performance boosts. In my work we implemented auto-indexing of client-side resources so you can search without lag or hiccups, and we published a library [0] so that others could use it. Pushing stuff as much stuff as you can to web workers is definitely something that needs to get more love. This isn't a particularly new idea. Here's a short writeup about this in react-future [1]. Rough…
Comment linking /2015/12/react-web-worker-renderer.html
on “2016 will be the year of concurrency on the web”Submitted IndexedDB Polyfill - Under the covers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis one is linked to by a commenter at the end of my article: http://blog.nparashuram.com/2011/10/developing-apps-for-wind...
Comment linking /2011/10/developing-apps-for-windows-8-my.html
on “A Comprehensive Overview of Windows 8 Metro App Development”Submitted Developing My First Windows 8 App - My Experience as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBtw, I found this hack on Google Wave. It is a simple phishing attack, but could be serious as it is triggered from inside Google Wave... More details at http://blog.nparashuram.com Demo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luHo8gz_o48
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on “Google Wave in action: Real-world case studies”Submitted Comparing the IndexedDB implementations on IE, FireFox and Chrom as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClickable link to the project - http://github.com/axemclion/browser-perf . Type of graphs that can be generated - http://axemclion.github.io/bootstrap-perf Data saved in couchdb - http://github.com/axemclion/perfjankie More info - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2014/01/making-frontend-performa... .
Comment linking /2014/01/making-frontend-performa...
on “Offer HN: Integrate Front end rendering performance tool into your website”Submitted Show HN: Time Travel Debugging for ReactNative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRespect for Wikipedia on not sending 503 http://blog.nparashuram.com/2012/01/wikipedia-unblackout.htm...
Comment linking /2012/01/wikipedia-unblackout.html
on “Disabling javascript will "unblackout" wikipedia”Submitted IndexedDB polyfill - now with sourcemaps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionClickable link to the project - http://github.com/axemclion/browser-perf . Type of graphs that can be generated - http://axemclion.github.io/bootstrap-perf Data saved in couchdb - http://github.com/axemclion/perfjankie More info - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2014/01/making-frontend-performa... .
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on “Integrate Front end rendering performance tool into your website”Submitted Example showing IndexedDB API on Cordova (Phonegap) for Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussionClickable link to the project - http://github.com/axemclion/browser-perf . Type of graphs that can be generated - http://axemclion.github.io/bootstrap-perf Data saved in couchdb - http://github.com/axemclion/perfjankie More info - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2014/01/making-frontend-performa...
Comment linking /2014/01/making-frontend-performance-testing.html
on “Integrate Front end rendering performance tool into your website”Submitted Offline Storage using IndexedDB API on Phonegap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browser plugin Wars-Comparing plugin authoring for Firefox, Chrome and Opera as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Webworkers to make React faster as a story · 2 points
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