While working on this site, I encountered an issue where content displayed using the the flash (a special tool used in conjunction with rails sessions to display temporary content between requests) was lingering for a brief second when revisiting a page that had previously displayed something from the flash. After searching through some documentation, I found that the underlying cause was due to the way turbo caches content between page reloads. A few minutes later, I happened to stumble upon this stack overflow thread related to the issue. I thought that I could provide a useful answer, and so I responded 🎉

In the age of LLMs and notably ChatGPT, stack overflow is becoming less relevant for day to day usage, but I am happy that fiddling around with this site inspired me to contribute a response 🖥️