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Re:Idle Until Urgent by CydeWeys on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:19AM (#18033072)
Thank you. That'd be like someone criticizing a coding example for a new language saying "What's the point of using OOP for implementing Tic-Tac-Toe? It's too simple to necessitate it."
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Re:Idle Until Urgent by thegeomaster on Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:37PM (#18033740)
I'm not criticizing the technique from the article. It's useful. I'm just expressing my confusion that the blog, simple as it looks, needs this JavaScript (and analytics are in a separate file from the one I'm referencing, it appears).
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Re:Idle Until Urgent by philipwalton on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:51PM (#18035020)
That 56K number isn't gzipped, gzipped it's only 18K (plus there's also some inline JS, some webpack boilerplate, and then analytics.js).

The reason for its size is my site is my playground. It's where I get to experiment with all the things I want to experiment with.

I also work on quite a few open source projects, which I usually test on my site before releasing them publicly just to make sure they work in production without errors.

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