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Remy Luisant
Personal blog · luisant.caprogrammingweb
Remy Luisant's personal blog at luisant.ca covers programming and web. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The race for the smallest CSS files continues”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on CSS minifiers and what they leave behind. The only comment here points to an earlier post on the same subject, "The missed chances: What minifiers leave behind".
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The race for the smallest CSS files continues2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- The missed chances: What minifiers leave behind2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-28
- The lesser known CPUs: CoolRISC 8162 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-14
What Hacker News says?
https://luisant.ca/Remy_CV_public.pdf Well, fuck my life. Here goes, posted on the site too. This required way more courage than anything else I have done in the last few months, even after I censored it to death. Thanks for the good words, guys. I know you are right. Even though I hate to agree with you, you are right. I hate to do this, but you are right. So it is done.
Comment linking /Remy_CV_public.pdf
on “What CSS minifiers also leave behind”Submitted What CSS minifiers also leave behind as a story · 252 points
HN discussionI have an article about it: https://luisant.ca/brotli-css
Comment linking /brotli-css
on “What CSS minifiers also leave behind”Submitted CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked as a story · 230 points
HN discussionHere's the same author's earlier post on this subject, "The missed chances: What minifiers leave behind", from last week: https://luisant.ca/css-opts-survey
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on “What CSS minifiers also leave behind”Submitted The lesser known CPUs: CoolRISC 816 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI had an article about that too. If you have to do just one, you should go with zopfli or brotli instead of minifying. Having both minification and some kind of compression on top does help the file sizes. https://luisant.ca/brotli-css Also, purifycss and uncss are your friends to cut stuff down, to reduce the final load for the user.
Comment linking /brotli-css
on “What CSS minifiers also leave behind”Submitted The race for the smallest CSS files continues as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYeah, crass is pretty amazing. Have you seen my post on the Remynifier, where I do exactly that? https://luisant.ca/remynifier
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on “What CSS minifiers also leave behind”Submitted 13 reasons why clickbait headlines are bad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Missed chances 3: Optimizing bad CSS snippets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The race for the smallest CSS files continues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lesser known CPUs: dsPIC33F as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lesser known CPUs: CoolRISC 816 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The missed chances: What minifiers leave behind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The joys of a modern checklister system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun with brute-force testcase reduction as a story · 1 points
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