Losing weight in the library

Your favourite app just lost half of its weight, mainly by better code packaging and dropping dependencies on old libraries. In other words: faster page loads!

The numbers:

Fresh page load: 1,9MB → 0.9MB
Asset data updates (every 5 minutes): 19kB → 3,8kB

The full list of changes:

• Defer the loading of low priority libraries such as markdown,
  calendar, video, and activity streams.
• Removed dependency on jQuery.
• Reduced package size of Twitter Bootstrap.
• Updated d3 and only load the d3 stuff we use.
• Fixed blank pages on Firefox due to the use of modern regexes.
• Reduce the re-rendering of price and item charts by up to 4 times.
• Crawler: detect irrelevant tweets earlier and stop following them.