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Applies: http://tonsky.me/blog/...
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@epse he left the platform, can't exactly recall why though.. iirc it was something about personal issues or the community or something like that. But it's been a while since that happened.. can't remember the details anymore 😶
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And then there's the wonderful world of embedded where KILObytes can make the cut so that you can choose the next smaller and cheaper chip. That's a dark area where C hackers thrive.
When I made a project website, the home page clocked in at 36 kB on the wire, including HTML, CSS, an image and a bit of vanilla JS. Responsive and accessible. Because that's what happens when a C hacker goes web. -
@Fast-Nop the whole industry needs to become more like this again ♥️
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@Condor "can't exactly recall why though"
Afaik he left, because he had a pretty hard discussion with the deleted user teganburns and maybe with other people, too. -
@Condor btw., I don't have social media shit on my site - privacy friendly and eliminates bloat. When testing with whatever website rating tool, it commented: "your social needs improvement".
I was like... you can bet, motherfucker.
Alright, I've already ranted about this but I feel like that was rather incomplete.. there's some other things that make me want to kill myself every time I enter <!DOCT- WHERE IS THAT FUCKING KNIFE?!!!
First one I've mentioned earlier is its <repetitiveness></repetitiveness>. What was wrong with {brackets}? If only HTML was more like CSS.
But there's some other ones as well.
- Frameworks! Ain't there nothing like a good dozen resources that every single one of your web pages wants to get JS from.
- Quantity over quality. Let's just publish early with tonnes of bugs, move fast and break things, amirite 🤪
- General noobness of apprentice web devs. Now I'm not talking about the real front-end devs here - AlexDeLarge was one of them.. forever holding a special place in my heart - that know how to properly use their tools. But there's a metric shitton of people who think that being able to write <html><body>Hello world!</body></html> makes them a dev.
- The general thought of "it's slow? Slap in more hardware." Now this is a general issue with software development, optimization costs valuable resources while leaving it in a shitty state but released quickly costs pretty much nothing. A friend of mine whose post I'll attach in the image section illustrates this pretty well. You can find it at https://facebook.com/10000171480431....
I'm not sure if this is an exhaustive list, but those are the most important things that irritate me about web development in general.
On a side note, apparently 113 people visited my hiddenbio.html page.. I'm genuinely impressed! I had no idea that so many people on devRant would click through. On Facebook pages this has been an ongoing significant issue of getting people to leave the platform - it's huge but engagement on off-Facebook links is terrible. I guess that I'm dealing with an entirely different community here. And I'm pleasantly surprised actually!
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