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New comment by fallbackboy in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

fallbackboy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:31:04 +0000

They bundle uBlock Origin into their Chromium fork, I expect that if it became too difficult to support the APIs needed on MV2, they'd integrate the features more directly into the browser.

New comment by fallbackboy in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

fallbackboy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:32:51 +0000

I would recommend folks check out Helium (https://helium.computer) it’s fast, basically just ungoogled chromium, and has full support for ublock origin.

New comment by fallbackboy in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

fallbackboy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:30:18 +0000

That seems really unfair because every other search engine also as "AI" integration. Kagi's is tasteful and only used when you seek it out.

New comment by fallbackboy in "Improving React Interaction Times by 4x"

fallbackboy — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:06:14 +0000

This entire article is an example of the largest pain point when working with React. So much of the work done here simply can't be done without various hacks around `useEffect`, `useMemo`, or `useCallback` (manual memoization). I feel to this point that even with the new React beta docs explaining the use cases for `useEffect`, it still causes an immense amount of pain in some situations.

It's not immediately clear when writing code that uses `useEffect`, when it's a very bad idea long term for performance or code clarity. This often shows itself when the test data is very minimal and then the real data is far more expansive.

I still love React, but these complex scenarios definitely show some of the limitations in React's rendering model that other frameworks like Vue, Svelte, and SolidJS resolve.

New comment by fallbackboy in "Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers"

fallbackboy — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:25:35 +0000

I don't think it's a great idea to integrate with other work in progress, living on another feature branch. As far as maintenance releases go, strategies for resolving this are well documented here https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/branch-for-release/#fix-pr....

New comment by fallbackboy in "Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers"

fallbackboy — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:15:59 +0000

What exactly is a drawback of Trunk-based development for developers?