A new generation of JS bundlers that use modern browser’s native ESM support promise to be much faster than the Webpack/Rollup style bundlers; They seem to be getting a lot of traction / tweets of late (search twitter)

Snowpack: https://snowpack.dev
HMR for Svelte mentioned in the Readme, which makes it a winner for me!

npx create-snowpack-app --template @snowpack/app-template-svelte new-folder

“Snowpack is a faster build tool for modern web apps. Snowpack leverages ESM imports in your application to remove unnecessary bundling work during development. The end result is a build tool that starts up instantly and wastes no time rebuilding on every change. See changes reflected in the browser instantly.”

Other contenders:

esbuild: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild

• Does not support Svelte (https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/8)

Vite: https://github.com/vitejs/vite

• Native-ESM powered web dev build tool. It’s fast. “
• By vuejs
• HMR for React, Preact, Vue. Svelte not mentioned…

Kinda related:

Sucrase (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sucrase) is like babel-lite; smaller scope, assumes modern browsers, upto 20x faster than babel and typescript. Instead of ts-node index.ts, try running sucrase-node index.ts.

Deno takes some inspiration from Go and pulls deps directly from GitHub without npm (or a package manager). I have yet to wrap my head around it … but conceptually I like the idea that a deno script is a “single” file rather than a pile of files. OTOH, PHP’s phar never gained as much traction … I mean when was the last time you downloaded a “cli script” that was actually a phar? Also deno is uses typescript natively.

There is a lot of negativity all around re: coronavirus. It’s depressing. So, in the next posts, I am going to highlight positive developments.

With nearly every smart person on the planet working to find a cure – it’s only a matter of time before we have one. Looks like there are 2 possible treatments (meds) already:

* Remdesivir

* Chloroquine – generic, cheap and easily available – (if you’ve every had malaria, like me, you’ve probably had some version of chloroquine. I remember it tasting bitter’ish but otherwise had no side-effects on me)

My goto services:

Digital Ocean Special sauce: Incredible UI/UX, super fun to use. I’ve stopped thinking about it anymore, I just go to DO. Downsides: Many (probably most?) of the IPs are blacklisted for email. Most aren’t great exits for VPN services either for the same reason. CLI tool (doctl has pretty shit UX though)	$5/GB of RAM
Linode	$5/GB of RAM
OVH Special sauce: The lowest cost option, but it’s Canada and Europe only. No SE Asia, no USA.	$1.68/GB of RAM Yep it’s 66% cheaper than everyone else.
Vultr Special sauce: awesome plans with $2.50 for a node with IPv6 only, 512Mb RAM	$5/Gb
Amazon LightSail Special Sauce: oh well, it’s the IBM of servers, so I might as well document it here: They have this clone of Digital Ocean, called LightSail, that s3cks, obvs. It’s the same price $5/Gb (same as Linode/DO/Vultr). Available in a few more locations than most of the above (incl. Mumbai; Digital Ocean has Bangalore).	$5/GB of RAM
Heroku #FREE Incredibly good tooling; 1x 512Mb Dyno is free (1000 Hours/mo if you verify with a credit card). Gets very expensive very fast though — because you are subsidising the development of developer tools and the “free” tier.	$14-$50/Gb of RAM

I may update this page someday, but then again I may not 🙂 Bookmark if you’re adventurous (ctrl + d, or cmd + d)

Fast.com: Provided by Netflix, this runs on the same server and infra that Netflix runs on. So it’s a good check of Netflix speed and whether your ISP throttles connections to Netflix. Also few ISPs are optimizing (faking) results to fast.com as yet (because it’s not trivial to do so without also making all of Netflix faster)…

proof.ovh.net: OVH is by far the cheapest and probably the best hosting / colo / dedicated server provider in the world. How fast you can get to OVH servers is a good proxy for general internet speeds. (France, Canada, Singapore, Sydney). Mostly you just need to check speeds to the USA/Europe/Singapore/Australia.

speedtest-cli: Much easier to use than the advertisement laden, anti-user speedtest.com site. Easier to script too 😀

brew install speedtest-cli ripgrep #mac
sudo apt install speedtest-cli #ubuntu

#List all servers
speedtest-cli --list

#Test with 3 random servers
for server in `speedtest-cli --list | rg -i 'India\b' | cut -d')' -f1 | sort -Ru | head -n3`; do speedtest-cli --server $server; done

Provider	Storage	Per Year
Google Drive	2TB	$          100
iCloud	2TB	$          120
Dropbox	2TB	$          200
B2	2TB	$          120
Mega	1Tb	$          144
pCloud	2TB	$          100
OVH SYS	2TB	$          360
DreamObjects (DreamHost)	2TB	$          600
OneDrive	1TB	$          70
MediaFire	1TB	$          30

Notes:

• 2TB is the sweet spot for me; YMMV.
• iOS does not seem to search Google Drive like it does Dropbox
• Google’s One (https://one.google.com/) may make Google’s offering more attractive
• Google does a lot of rate-limiting apparently
• Microsoft is giving you Office 365 (which you’d have to pay for anyways) with the 1Tb
• pCloud: I’d trust Google over pCloud… and Drive is searchable, has an excellent API and is probably supported by a lot more tools and services.
• iCloud: The worst by far in terms of performance; sync is slower than molasses from India. And they ($AAPL) don’t care. With Google Photos, iCloud’s limited advantage of deep integration with iOS Photos is not as relevant.
• MediaFire: No search;

Also see https://rclone.org/