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New comment by josephernest in "Deno Desktop"

josephernest — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:34:40 +0000

IIRC Electron hello world is ~ 100-150 MB because it bundles a browser/Chromium runtime.

So I hoped we could have a <= 20 MB solution by reusing the OS webview or similar. Having more than 400 MB is a bit deceptive for me. (Again: maybe I just did something wrong in the config: should I do something else than `deno desktop test.ts`?)

New comment by josephernest in "Deno Desktop"

josephernest — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:26:33 +0000

I just tried `deno desktop helloworld.ts` and the result is 442 MB. So it's not any lighter than Electron (see my toplevel comment)

New comment by josephernest in "Deno Desktop"

josephernest — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:24:34 +0000

> deno desktop is opinionated about those tradeoffs:

> Small by default, full Node compatibility

I tried `deno desktop index.ts` with the 5-line Hello world in the article.

Result (Windows 10): 442 MB. Ouch.

I thought it would be smaller than an Electron build, but it's far worse. Did I do something wrong?

(libcef.dll: 247 MB) (deno-test.dll: 78 MB <- contains the hello world)

New comment by josephernest in "Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies"

josephernest — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:48:38 +0000

Nice project, always interesting to see HTMX-inspired frameworks.

If you want something even more minimalistic, I did Swap.js: 100 lines of code, handles AJAX navigation, browser history, custom listeners when parts of DOM are swapped, etc.

https://github.com/josephernest/Swap.js

Using it for a few production products and it works quite well!

New comment by josephernest in "I fixed Windows native development"

josephernest — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:13:35 +0000

Let's say I want to compile a helloworld.cpp with no build tools installed yet.

What is the minimal winget command to get everything installed, ready for : cl main.cpp ?

Ps: I mean a winget command which does not ask anything, neither in command line, nor GUI ? Totally unattenfed.

New comment by josephernest in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

josephernest — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:55:09 +0000

In France (and probably everywhere) there is currently massive deployment of FTTH (fiber to the home) and removal of copper lines, since a decade.

Does this mean we could have kept the good old copper lines from 60 years ago and still enjoy 1 Gbit internet in residential areas?

New comment by josephernest in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

josephernest — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:05:41 +0000

Out of curiosity, any other example without redirect, in which the URL stays https:// in the browser?

New comment by josephernest in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

josephernest — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:44:16 +0000

Do I understand correctly: would someone have a concrete example of URL which is both an IP address and HTTPS, widely accessible from global internet? e.g. https:/// ?

New comment by josephernest in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

josephernest — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:32:05 +0000

Thanks.

1. It is part of a bigger web-browser dashboard/control interface and this camera display is just one component among many others.

2. Some of the (USB) cameras can have proprietary interfaces such as https://www.ximea.com/support/wiki/apis/python

How would you do in this situation, to have the video stream in the browser, with as low CPU usage as possible?

3. Not for this project but for a future project, feel free to put a link to your portfolio or contact page (even if you remove the comment later)

New comment by josephernest in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

josephernest — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:45:40 +0000

Related: for some hardware project, I have a backend server (either C++ or python) receiving frames from an industrial camera, uncompressed.

And I need these frames displayed in a web browser client but on the same computer (instead of network trip like in this article).

How would you do this ?

I eventually did more or less like OP with uncompressed frames.

My goal is to minimize CPU usage on the computer. Would h264 compression be a good thing here given source and destination are the same machine?

Other ideas?

NB: this camera cannot be directly accessed by the browser.

New comment by josephernest in "Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin"

josephernest — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:25:29 +0000

Why would it be limited to ~ 100 connections on a 1-4 GB RAM server? Out of curiosity if we fork() httpd and exec() the cgi handler, it doesn't take the same RAM as the parent process and it could just take a few KB or MB, is that right? So I guess 1000+ concurrent connections even on a small server is possible.

New comment by josephernest in "Self-hosted app showed me I've been using bookmarks wrong all my life"

josephernest — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:08:27 +0000

Reminder that one of the best browser bookmarking system is already built-in: https://afewthingz.com/browserbookmark

New comment by josephernest in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

josephernest — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:55:06 +0000

I still use Office 2007 on my computer. Super super snappy, I think Word or Excel starts and finishes loading in 0.5 second after clicking the icon. It has 99% of the features I need compared to the newest Office version.

New comment by josephernest in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

josephernest — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:54:34 +0000

New comment by josephernest in "Gumroad’s source is available"

josephernest — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:48:27 +0000

No it is not.

New comment by josephernest in "Play the Virtual Organ from Arp Schnitger"

josephernest — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:00:11 +0000

You can hear many MP3 examples here: https://www.jeuxdorgues.com/jeux-d-orgues-4-lachaisedieu/

All are played with the virtual organ, what do you think?

I'll do a post soon with more stories about this project itself (that I started long ago)!

New comment by josephernest in "Play the Virtual Organ from Arp Schnitger"

josephernest — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:46:17 +0000

Oh something in my niche ! I produce French pipe organ sample sets for a living : https://www.jeuxdorgues.com

It's an extroardinary journey to record an organ, process the thousands of WAV files and design a virtual organ model.

New comment by josephernest in "Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file"

josephernest — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:34:24 +0000

I've done a similar tool a few years ago, with "contenteditable". It's great. Especially for non-tech people who want to quickly edit articles on a website. (that was an experiment).

The problem I had: when people copy/paste HTML from external sources, after a few edits, a few months later, you see that the HTML is just a horrible mix of various mixed up tags, the structure is lost, you have

everywhere and it's impossible to clean it in WYSIWYG.

OP, did you find a satisfying solution to this problem? A good compromise for sanitizing of copy/paste content? TL;DR: not remove the images, but clean the

    

stuff when copy/pasting?



New comment by josephernest in "The Content Overflow Era – The End of the Long Tail"
josephernest — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:20:58 +0000

(Curious about HN readers' views about this!)



The Content Overflow Era – The End of the Long Tail
josephernest — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://afewthingz.com/contentoverflowera
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42851915
Points: 3
# Comments: 1