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by jabo 1863 days ago
Ha! Once you're used to instant search-as-you-type experiences, it's pretty addictive. From a UX perspective, it actually helps increase engagement as people tend to search for more queries, since there's no cognitive overhead in typing something and waiting for a result.

The commits data is ~950MB on disk, with ~1 million records. It takes up about ~3GB in RAM when indexed in Typesense.