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@danluu: How do you find time to write a detailed post like this outside your day job?

"I'm not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out that there's a large gap that's waiting to be filled by your knowledge. When I started writing this blog, I figured almost no one would ever read it; sure Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge created widely read blogs, but that was back when almost no one was blogging. Now that there are millions of blogs, there's just no way to start a new blog and get noticed. Turns out that's not true." - Dan Luu https://danluu.com/about/

As of late he is also supported on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danluu

More importantly to me, how did he "Futz around" for 25 minutes and do all of this in the article? I'm calling BS/extreme exaggeration.

I have no idea who dan luu is, but I imagine he does something very similar for his day job.

There's a number of people who can take what they do in their day job and then write about it (this example clearly is not that, but he spend 30 minutes speeding up his site, and probably an hour documenting it; that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today).

> that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today

It's impossible to waste time on HN.[1]

[1] That's what I keep telling myself.

Dan Luu's posts show up here pretty often. His posts are generally well thought out and often involve quite a bit of research and deep-diving into whatever topic he's chosen to write about.

He doesn't post super often -- a quick perusal of his archive shows at most 3x per month, often less, and often not even once during a random month. So while each post might take a lot of time and effort, it's often spread out over weeks or more.

(Not trying to criticize your lack of knowledge here, just aiming to fill a knowledge gap.)

Meh. They're half good, half snobby and self-righteous.

He famously refuses to date his blog posts. And in this case, the page is years old, no longer relevant to the content of his blog and contains techniques that are not recommended and will in fact slow down your page load.

Either keep content relevant, or put dates on it so people can be aware that content might be outdated.

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