Pepp38

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Ask HN: When autosave restores an invalid client-side state
1 points by Pepp38 7mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Savior – Prevent silent form data loss in the browser(github.com)
1 points by Pepp38 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Pepp38 8mo ago
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. I always feel a bit uneasy with that pattern though. It kind of pushes the responsibility back to the user and adds friction, and it still doesn’t help when things go wrong accidentally (tab suspension, crashes, ba
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Ask HN: How do you detect silent data loss in user-facing systems?
2 points by Pepp38 8mo ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Do you bother making state changes reversible?
1 points by Pepp38 8mo ago|2 comments
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by Pepp38 8mo ago
Form autosave feels reassuring, but a lot of data loss happens quietly, without errors or metrics catching it. I wrote this short essay after thinking about how normal user behavior, mobile browsers, and silent failures make data loss mostl
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by Pepp38 9mo ago
Author here. I built an autosave system, then spent time trying to break it on purpose: tab crashes, reloads, SPA navigation, storage failures, interrupted sessions. What surprised me wasn’t that autosave fails, but how often these failure
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by Pepp38 9mo ago
I actually respect the move. It’s not subtle, and it’s not trying to please everyone. You may agree or not with the direction, but at least it’s clearly stated.
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by Pepp38 9mo ago
Interesting read. What stood out to me is that this feels less like a detection problem and more like a cost-shaping one. Sec-Fetch and Client Hints aren’t decisive on their own, but they’re hard to fake consistently across layers and over
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by Pepp38 9mo ago
I see it as just another tool. Like any other tool, you have to learn it and integrate it into your workflow. And as a learning tool, it’s extraordinary. Not because it replaces understanding, but because it accelerates it: you can explore
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by Pepp38 9mo ago
I think part of the disagreement is how “the golden age” is being defined. If it meant building something decent, ranking on Google, and pushing a few ads, then yeah, that probably is over.But if it means a single person being able to explo
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Show HN: Savior – Automatic form draft recovery for real-world failures(github.com)
1 points by Pepp38 9mo ago|1 comments