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I've been looking for an approachable read on waves and so I like this very much. A nice touch is the retro visitor counter at the bottom of the page. Made me nostalgic. When I got to it it said ~1600. I reloaded the page and it was almost at 3000. The power of HN I guess.

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Hah, thanks! I open-sourced the counter separately (although beware, it's a React component): https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-retro-hit-counter

Also, for any folks who immediately scroll down to see it: the hit-counter only loads a few seconds after the page initializes. This was done intentionally to avoid adding yet another thing to the busy period of initial mount. It means visits of less than a few seconds aren't counted, but -shrugs-.

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