[Delgan]

I was baffled by the technical blog post they published on this subject, in 2023: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/cr...

They completely redesigned the code navigation to load it dynamically using React. One of the regressions introduced caused the entries to be duplicated when searching for a word using Ctrl+F. Their solution to address this issue? Decompose the source character by character, assigning each individual character its own distinct HTML node...

Needless to say, in addition to abysmal performance (it took seconds to display on my laptop), this also caused new problems (such as the inability to search for certain composite emojis). The worst part is that they seemed proud of their hack, since they wrote a blog post about it.

[progbits]

Trying to find a string in github actions logs is just impossible. Not to mention that even opening large logs takes many seconds of animated scrolling to get to the end.

There is the "view raw logs" button which just opens a plaintext file that my browser loads and searches instantly (imagine that), but doesn't work for still-running jobs.

[amluto]

Wow, that post is amazing. They observed that their page worked poorly because it had a lot of DOM nodes, and they don’t even discuss the idea of trying to make a usable page with fewer DOM nodes. Instead they add all manner of complexity and more nodes (!) to make it sort of work.

A web browser can render and search a boring pure-HTML syntax-highlighted source file just fine.