Ancestors

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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Toot

Written by Haro on 2025-01-22 at 09:56

@slightlyoff

Because I'm currently waiting for a medical exam I want to share a war story 😅:

I work as a full stack eng for an online shop, being only 1 of 2 people caring for frontend.

Around 2018 the problem was "cart page is too slow, do something".

Being on the crossroads we opted for... drums

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[#]warstories #webdev #frontend

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Descendants

Written by Haro on 2025-01-22 at 09:56

@slightlyoff

"Render frame first, ship data as json when ready and render on frontend".

"With mustache".

Ahahahaha 😂

I'm in pain ever since.

If you have to, use htmx.

Not, that I was new in the field then... 🤦

Noth' said, It's live and learn, baby, live and learn 👍

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Written by Fluchtkapsel on 2025-01-22 at 11:24

@slightlyoff @haroha Me a few days ago in our IT team chat. (translation in alt text)

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Written by Haro on 2025-01-30 at 21:58

@fluchtkapsel

Yeah, that's the stuff! I'm all in on: why burn electricity on wordpress when all you do is ship static html all the time. 😅

I'm using https://getpublii.com . It's really enough for a blog. It provides a serviceable UI with wysiwyg, if you wish. Only downside is multi user is a bit hard.

@slightlyoff

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