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Ruben Vermeersch
Personal blog · savanne.be/articleswebprogramming
Ruben Vermeersch's personal blog at savanne.be covers web and programming. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited by one commenter as an example of browser performance advice tied to database use. The commenter argues that such advice contributes to slowdowns in Firefox and Safari.
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.
Ruben Vermeersch - rubenv
What Hacker News says?
I don't like databases, and the reason I don't like them is that they seem to cause terrible performance problems in web browsers. Firefox's use of SQLite is well known to cause or have caused trouble - for example http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curvebal... . And then you get advice like this: http://savanne.be/153-performance-tip-of-the-day/ . Safari has similar issues. In particular the favico…
Comment linking /153-performance-tip-of-the-day/
on “Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?”Submitted Deploying Node.js with systemd as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s all about being productive as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Node.js with systemd (2013) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing with Angular.JS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node-apk-parser – Extract Android Manifest info from an APK file. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concurrency in Erlang and Scala: The Actor Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Node.js the modern way, everywhere (with systemd) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Karma and Chrome under tmux on OSX. as a story · 1 points
HN discussion