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preparing to cook a pork loin fillet in our Instant Pot… I am such a very bad Jewboy
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them: ...but Alex, you can't be calling out both Redux and Apollo at the same time; nobody's gonna put them both in the same app!
me: my sweet, sweet summer child
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
2022 is turning into a big year for Team Finding Out, and there's still a couple of weeks left, so join me in deciding that frontend's lost decade can also come to a close.
We can decide that the JS thinkfluencers actually *didn't* know what they were talking about and go HTML-first. And it can be better.
h/t, @noam:
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/an-html-first-mental-model/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Occurred while drafting this that language has evolved to give name to what I have observed in the frontend community's desperate lurching from one too-tall pile of JS to the next: hopium
The endless appetite to learn some new JS pattern rather than investigate how browsers actually work, keen to believe that the next set of React/Next/etc. marketing events will provide the answer...it's not working, but it's comfortably numbing.
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This isn't to say that productivity isn't hugely important; it is. But there must be connective tissue between the experiences of developers and the experiences of users.
This is part of why HMR is such a tell: it mediates away the experience of getting to the end state and tries to shuffle away the reality of how much code is going to be built/sent on many interactions.
Most sites don't have deep sessions, so removing the fingerspitzengefühl generation mechanisms is tantamount to misdirection
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THIS IS BAD.
Obviously, it's bad for users, and in my personal value system that matters a hell of a lot more, but even from the purely selfish perspective of today's frontend community, it's a shitshow.
We should not accept such a low standard of team-level outcomes. It should not be possible with modern tooling to fail this hard, this often.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What we don't say often enough is that the "DX" claims are, in aggregate, lies. Quarter-truths stacked like cordwood, with additive errors removing any defensibility for the underlying premise of resource abundance.
There is no escape from the cumulative.
When your personal "building a component in isolation was fun" experience gets added to the work of the rest of your team, _you're still on the hook or the results_.
And thus, teams find their products beached, unable to return to shipping.
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TIME CHANGE! With my apologies for the late notice, @ahl and my conversation with @dap is moving EARLIER to 3p Pacific today:
https://discord.com/invite/shdPpXSu?event=1053500079765459034
@dap will be talking about his recent debugging odyssey:
https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/issues/1146
Like every episode of @oxidecomputer and Friends, always recorded:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
Sorry for the late notice, and hope you can join us!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What I don't talk about in my updated post on the Performance Inequality Gap [1] is how absolutely shit the results of modern frontend have been *for developers*.
I sit with teams (yes, plural) whose forward progress (and sometimes, their product launches) have been brought to a halt because the results of the now-default React/Redux/Apollo/WebPack/CSS-in-JS stack are SO bad that they bring executive's fast laptops to a stand-still.
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
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yes! this is the cooper's hawk that I brought my camera out to capture, finally returned
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As you saunter towards a holiday torpor, a brief update on the state of devices and networks to help you level-set your web development in the new year:
"The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023":
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It takes a lot to make Aaron Peskin seem like anything but a NIMBY tool, but somehow this article managed:
Mastodon FeedThis article really captures the vibe https://www.theringer.com/world-cup/2022/12/18/23515703/argentina-france-world-cup-final-lionel-messi-kylian-mbappe
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@teller Were they a VC visiting startups seeking funding? Could all be a show to make Old Money investors feel comfortable. 😆
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insurrection, I was not sure they would have the courage to speak plainly