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• Elon Musk @elonmusk 14h Why is this never in the news? t7 8,420 93.4K 7,166 AnOmaly @LegendaryEnergy· 12h The people running the news companies in America hate America & Americans. Q 171 ♡ 7,046 tl 561 Elon Musk @elonmusk How did it come to be this way? 9:51 PM 12/19/22
• AnOmaly @LegendaryEnergy What do Epstein, Weinstein & 85% of the writers, producers & media execs making the most subversive programming have in common? I'll give you a hint, Trump & Republicans pass speech orders trying to stop you from saying the truth about it. But it's cultural to blame "white ppl"

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Muddy Waters Blues Band on Jul 1, 1965

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The broken padlock has the effect of creating solidarity: managers experience it as a broken site in the same way users do. And when managers experience something going badly, it gets fixed.

And yet, browsers do not do this for performance. At all. Not even in devtools.

It's a shocking failure of imagination and care.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

You see, the key problem in web performance today is getting managers to give a shit.

This has been true for many years, but we like to talk around it and pretend that the next incremental engineering improvement will actually change things, even when we know full well that it will not.

And we know what works; as this decline and atrophy has taken hold, we've also succeeded in migrating the entire web to TLS. It's an incredible feat! How, you might ask? With an icon.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The one exception to this has been Core Web Vitals, but that was weakened and delayed by multiple years for predictable (and predicted) reasons.

But even the weak-sauce that CWV served has helped to highlight just how badly browsers have let everyone down -- users most of all.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The post-scarcity dream was, of course, wrong on the facts about desktop computing too, but putting that to the side for a moment, I think it's important to focus on the browser's role in enabling frontend's lost decade.

We suffered a collective hallucination this dramatic because nobody shook the community awake. There was no intervention.

Fearful, cowardly product managers even tried to police my work in highlighting how poorly it was going & succeeded in sinking effective interventions.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

How do I get the Home Depot tiny gloves from the commercial though?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The dream of infinite CPU and fast, stable networks was sunk by the emergence of broad-based mobile computing:

https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

Here's a talk from '16, warning of what I was seeing then; a harbinger of what was to come:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4

And an solemn update from '19 on how it was going (spoiler: badly):

https://vimeo.com/364402896

And here's the latest update on networks & CPUs:

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

TL;DR: we have never been post-scarcity.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Something like half my job these days is to help MSFT's web products improve. This is a continuation of the incidental consulting I did at Google from '15-'21, and in that time it has become crystal clear to me that the market for frontend tools and technologies is broken -- and browsers are to blame.

What we experience as pervasive slowness, even on the high-profile sites, is a consequence of a culture that fell in love with a post-scarcity dream. A dream that was, in fact, a mirage.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Per usual, @brucelawson said it better than I could:

"Bad performance is bad accessibility":

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2022/bad-performance-is-bad-accessibility/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Finally tried out GUI Dwarf Fortress yesterday. I just did a couple of the tutorials. It's really cool but it's a lot to take in. It also doesn't play well with 4k screens

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@rust_gamedev I've noticed massive GIFs from ffmpeg in your weekly news. Try (pure Rust) https://gif.ski for encoding — it should give you smaller files and better quality.

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