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by wesz2 hours ago |
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upvoteby latchkey2 hours ago|
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How is it over-engineered slop? Happy to improve things, but I thought it was pretty clean.
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upvoteby wesz1 hours ago|
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You claim to have 30+ years of webdev experience and yet 2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?
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upvoteby dang1 hours ago|
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Hey please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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upvoteby latchkey1 hours ago|
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You're not really answering the question.

That's the bundle size, not the amount of code in the project.

I've done nothing to try to optimize the bundle size, but I suspect that a lot of it has to do with some of the third party dependencies like mermaid.

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upvoteby wesz1 hours ago|
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Well, i downloaded firefox extension and checked the size of only *.js files without any additional assests - and it's 2 megabytes. Mermaid is around 800kb, so it still leaves over 1 megabyte of javascript.

The amount of abstraction alone for the project of this scope makes me cringe. You introduce unnecessary complexity.

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upvoteby 59nadir23 minutes ago|
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In all fairness, 30+ years of web development is exactly what would convince you that shipping 1+ MB of JS is fine, no? I'm not really kidding... Web development is where all of the worst practices in programming thrive and come from. Some of them are spending minutes (sometimes 10+ minutes) compiling/"building" web pages before they "deploy" them, and so on.

30+ years in web development is what you say at the support group to explain why you're there, not to convince people you've developed good taste and reasonable sensibilities.

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upvoteby latchkey19 minutes ago|
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[deleted] apparently not ai generated. still sounds weird.
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upvoteby 59nadir10 minutes ago|
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I can assure that it's not. What makes you think I'd waste my time writing HackerNews comments using LLMs? Take a look at my post history and tell me honestly that you believe that to be the case.

No, I just used a phrasing that reminded you of LLMs and that's it. Funnily enough it also has no real bearing on my argument; your 30+ years of web development didn't stop you from shipping more than a MB of JS to add some basic features to HackerNews [because LLMs wrote everything for you].

"Every accusation is a confession" and all that...

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upvoteby latchkey1 hours ago|
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Thanks for the feedback!
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