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You are about enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mindlessness.
Consider one Mr Alex Russell. He has a headache. He senses something off, but he can't put his finger on it. He's looking at web page. With a carousel. And some links.
As is the style, it has three copies of React (3), between the document and two (2) iframes. None of which is shared. It's served as 200 requests across 40 connections.
Or at least it's the style...in the Twilight Zone
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Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.
Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in Iooking at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire them.
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It finally crystallised, after all these years. I now understand my groundhog day experience of being the first person to take traces for a high-profile service, or to read the JS a tower of bundlers and build tools "optimised": the JS community (principally the Over-Reactors) are theorists.
Web Application Theorists.
WATs.
They do not understand how it's going because looking is discouraged. These are not engineers. They do not engineer because they don't accept constraints as legitimate.
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I get why Republicans and the press are failing, but why are there no protests outside D elected's offices? The minimum they must do is fight, and voters have to demand they at least try. Why isn't that happening?
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If your website is so slow that I have time to take a screenshot of the loading spinner after noticing, from a fast machine and network, there are whole layers of management that have explaining to do.
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Your wiki is not an SPA. If it comes with a copy of React served to every page, throw it out and start over.
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This gives me hope:
https://kellysutton.com/2025/01/18/moving-on-from-react-a-year-later.html
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For anyone following, this is the section that really stood out:
https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1#:~:text=3.2.2,to%2DAll%20Communication
...which builds on some really cool profiling and scheduling work:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10241
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(and no, none of those people spend their time in React if they have any say in the matter. The React ecosystem is a high-performer dead zone)
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Reading up on some interesting memory allocator work this AM, I was struck by how there only seem to be like a couple of dozen[1] people in industry that really understand this stuff. And you see the same thing in UI; only a small cohort actually at the top of the game in really making the system sing. And these people are always undervalued.
[1]: this is surely a gross underestimate, but it troubles me that I can't tell by how much
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Like, reading the deepseek paper, my overwhelming thought is "so wait, the secret sauce was...profiling the workload? Then deciding to program to the available hardware?"
I stare at the results of people carelessly composing UI systems without the faintest concern for how they will work in practice, but somehow imagined that wasn't how it's going in the rest of the industry. Woof.
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