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Daniel Lockyer
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Daniel Lockyer
@DanielLockyer
โ€ข I make sites faster and cloud/LLM bills lower ๐Ÿš€ โ€ข 2:43 marathoner (๐Ÿ”œ 2:39 in Berlin)
Amsterdam
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Aug 17, 2025
    I've found (and locally fixed) an annoying performance bug on @X web! TLDR: go to a post with a lot of replies, and scroll up and down - notice it's laggy? There's a component that calculates the scroll parent, and then removes the scroll listener when unmounting. But it seems
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Jun 21, 2025
    Lmfao this is becoming insane
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Mar 21, 2025
    Meta recently made a 1 character change to their codebase which saves the equivalent of ~15,000 servers in capacity per year ๐Ÿคฏ
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Jul 2, 2025
    According to their filing, Figma has a $300k/DAY AWS bill ๐Ÿซ 
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    Dylan Field
    Figma
    @zoink
    Jul 1, 2025
    Sharing an update on @figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol โ€œFIG.โ€ figma.com/blog/s1-public
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Aug 18, 2025
    the thing that everyone forgets is that COMPUTERS ARE FAST waiting SECONDS for things to load is NOT NORMAL
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Aug 11, 2025
    Someone was rewarded $250k by Google for a Chrome vulnerability ๐Ÿฅน
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Aug 15, 2025
    I've accidentally created a folder in my home directory called ~ and I'm extremely scared of deleting it
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Nov 2, 2025
    some of these numbers are just mind-blowing
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Oct 30, 2025
    who remembers this
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Sep 15, 2025
    Cloudflare ended up DDoSing itself due to React's useEffect hook ๐Ÿซ 
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Sep 8, 2025
    pieter on X: ha! i now use AI to do devops pieter to me: fuck, I just added 10GB of files to git and cannot remove them, pls help
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    @levelsio
    @levelsio
    Sep 5, 2025
    POV: you discover you can do your own DevOps with Claude Code
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Oct 30, 2025
    GitHub disagrees
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    Krish
    @dotkrish
    Oct 29, 2025
    You can just render big diffs Browsers are fast
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Jul 9, 2025
    Atlassian switched from JSON to Protobuf for one of their services, resulting in: - 75% less memcached CPU usage - 80% smaller data - 33x faster deserialization - a 55% smaller memcached cluster
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    Daniel Lockyer
    @DanielLockyer
    Oct 3, 2024
    Vercel pricing is absolutely insane, it blows my mind Data transfer starts at $150/TB with 1TB included Hetzner gives 20TB free, and then it's โ‚ฌ1.19/TB So 20TB on Vercel is $2850, on Hetzner it's free (included with VPS) And then you have to pay extra per request? Perhaps
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