dhh – walker – 2021-09-20

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Extend rails:stats task

dhh discuss ruby on rails · 2021-09-20

Would be happy to see such sub tasks 👍

Gmail loads 4MB of compressed JavaScript to render the inbox (13MB uncompressed, out of 29MB in total assets). @heyhey loads 63KB to render the imbox (240KB uncompressed, out of 903KB in total assets). HEY is built using https://hotwired.dev.

dhh twitter · 2021-09-20

Gmail loads 4MB of compressed JavaScript to render the inbox (13MB uncompressed, out of 29MB in total assets). @heyhey loads 63KB to render

"Propshaft is an asset pipeline library for Rails. It's built for era where bundling assets to save on HTTP connections is no longer urgent, where JS and CSS is either compiled by dedicated Node.js bundlers or served directly to the browsers, ..." https://github.com/rails/propshaft

dhh twitter · 2021-09-20

"Propshaft is an asset pipeline library for Rails. It's built for era where bundling assets to save on HTTP connections is no longer urgent,

"The clarity to make something fundamentally better comes from the bright sheen of a blank page. The inertia of the old requires effort to bring over, so only the best of it will make the jump. What's retained is the big picture, not every footnote." https://world.hey.com/dhh/conceptual-compression-is-lossy-and-loss-hurts-c62d027a

dhh twitter · 2021-09-20

"The clarity to make something fundamentally better comes from the bright sheen of a blank page. The inertia of the old requires effort to b

Conceptual compression is lossy (and loss hurts)

dhh blog · 2021-09-20

To make things simpler, you have to take something away. That means giving up something of real value to get something else of greater value