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
My Hugo blog was downloading 3.6 MB of JavaScript and 40 KB of external CSS on every page load. For a static blog with mostly text and a few diagrams, that was absurd. Here is how I fixed it. HTML: 86 KB JavaScript: 3.6 MB (Mermaid + KaTeX) CSS: 40 KB (KaTeX stylesheets) Problem: render-blocking scripts loaded on every page for math and diagrams Adding minifyOutput = true to hugo.toml shrunk HTML