I shipped gni-compression to npm two days ago. One of the first questions I got (from myself, running benchmarks at midnight): does it work on anything other than chat data? Short answer: not yet. Long answer: I found out exactly why, and it led me somewhere more interesting than I expected. After the npm launch I ran GN against Silesia — the standard general text compression benchmark suite. Dick
I've been building web applications for 8 years, and locale handling has always been my silent killer. Date formats break in production, currency symbols get mangled, timezone calculations drift—all caught too late. That's why I took TestSprite for a real project spin. Integration testing is boring, expensive, and brittle. Write 100 Selenium tests, change the UI once, watch 60 fail. Most teams eit