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Written by Alex Russell on 2025-01-21 at 20:27

The correct response to realizing computers are fast is not to make your software slow, because:

a.) you won't benefit as much as you hope

b.) if you break pro-user norms, so will every other site/app/library, and your thing will feel slow even if it's "fine" in isolation

c.) HW bounty is not evenly distributed, so your product becomes less usable non-linearly below some resource floor

Pretending constraints don't exist is not engineering, it's bullshitting.

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Written by Alex Russell on 2025-01-21 at 21:18

Software cultures that indulge in ignorance of constraints facilitate magical thinking, which eventually erodes the foundations out from underneath even conservatively-constructed experiences if left unchecked.

This is bad for users, but also business. A great shame of frontend's lost decade is that we lost the ability to adapt because so much of the community was high on frameworkism.

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Written by Alex Russell on 2025-01-21 at 21:23

And I don't know how to say this any more directly than this: any frontend engineer who brings React or Angular on premises (without an honest bakeoff & guardrails), in 2025, is de facto bad at their job.

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