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Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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CrayKhoi ◴[] No.41847377[source]
I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.
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mananaysiempre[dead post] ◴[] No.41847525[source]
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mmkos ◴[] No.41847677[source]
With all due respect, this feels better suited as a journal entry rather than a comment on a HN thread.
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1. mananaysiempre ◴[] No.41847769[source]
Perhaps, but it would have been of little use as a question there.

Once you acquire enough of a feeling for a foreign language that not every bit of your skill in it comes from somebody telling you that a particular thing is said in a particular way, you are doomed to live with a constant suspicion that your feeling is somehow off in a way you don’t recognize. Usually it can be suppressed and ignored, but sometimes it can’t, and occasionally it has to become a question. (I expect this is a fairly common experience.) This was one of those.

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2. jgwil2 ◴[] No.41849054[source]
I'm not sure about your point about "leveling" vs "leveling up", because for me, "leveling" means making a surface level/flat and does not have any video game-related meaning, but the "on" is probably coming from the phrase "to read up on" something (meaning to study/read about something; there's also a slangier variation, "to bone up on" something).