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Re:Why are we templating YAML? on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:55AM (#19113396)
YAML is a generic format which leaves formatting as a result of effect to you. Ansible puts rules on top of it, which makes intendation not always trivial, it is easy to have an dangling key value pair which doesn't cause an error, but has only an effect with the right intendation.
Re:JavaScript growth and third parties on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:39AM (#18680143)
I call this no-js-first. There are apps that are blazing fast and have a lot of fancy/modern js stuff in it, they simply don't require any of it at all.
Re:JavaScript growth and third parties on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:30AM (#18680100)
> Also, JS is cached. First time will be slow, others, not so much

This is a very weak argument.

  * many 3rd party resources are not cacheable or may have bad policies
  * caches may be more often cold then you expect. most apps still cache large combined blobs, which will invalidate with each release.
  * pure JS size has still it's impact on performance
  * caching won't magically cut all network roundtrips which you need due to architectural reasons