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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@seldo One developer shared with me that an experiment demonstrated that every KB of JS on their mid-market e-commerce SPA cost them ~$700/K yr in revenue.
Outside the excesses of the Bay Area (which they and their customers assuredly are), there's literally no business argument for the MANY hundreds of KB of JS they were sending.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@seldo OTOH, I think it's fair to say that this has given me more direct and high-bandwidth access to the decision-makers and the narratives they have used to justify their choices.
Laurie's model is so far divorced from this argumentative and marketing morass that I do not recognise it...except in the effect of shrinking the TAM.
Mastodon FeedI wonder who has done more damage to UK trans women, Ray Blanchard or John Randall?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@seldo But at a larger level, which Laurie helpfully frames, this *is* about total addressable market tradeoffs and the extent to which they are optimal.
I sense that a large delta in our perspectives comes from the respective ways in which we spend time. More than 30% of my time over the past 8 years (and > 50% of it now) has been doing direct consulting with teams like the ones that build the apps he mentions.
I'm living in the trough of disillusionment, which generates a bias.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just read @seldo's (well written and argued) response to my post from last week, and while I owe it a larger airing, a few things jump out:
First, "SPA" vs. "not-SPA" is about data model locality, and I'm not sure that sites that could easily be built with progressive enhancement and Ajax partials count.
See the diagram from the end of my longer post:
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niki@mouse.photos ("niki :heart_ace:") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Blogs flying about remind me that "SPA" is short for "Slow Page Apologetics"
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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White") wrote:
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The one with the dancing robots the 4yo also likes is this one. If you haven't seen it before, be sure to watch until after the credits. The Chemical Brothers' "Free Yourself":
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"The girl in the sparkly blue dress that sings one, two, free..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg
"Oh. She says one, two, free, four..."
"The one with a robot, but not the dancing robots"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g
"Pineapple kryptonite"
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
On Monday, @ahl and I are going to be joined by @yaelwrites on @oxidecomputer and Friends to discuss her terrific Consumer Reports piece on memory safety:
This will be a great discussion; join us live on Monday at 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/Yh6tDdez?event=1073854304609370152
Recorded and made available in our podcast feed, as always:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“As long as Putin is relatively strong and able to maintain the balance between groups of influence, Prigozhin is safe for him,” Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, recently wrote. But, she went on, “war breeds monsters, whose recklessness and desperation can become a challenge to the state should it show the slightest weakness.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Children shouldn't be pawns in the class war.
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unfa ("unfa🇺🇦") wrote:
Mastodon FeedIt looks like .rs registrar is serious with it taking 24 hours to update.
Meanwhile, for your /etc/hosts
116.203.51.244 lib.rs
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Much like the creator of JavaScript, I was once given ten (working) days to develop a language. But I blew it all on a macro assembler for the soft processors that were being used in the FPGAs of a product we were developing. So no lasting fame or impact outside a failed startup. But on the other hand... I have also caused no harm. 😆
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I wonder how many people don't know that Firefox's "reader view" can bypass a lot of paywalls they hit. You'll have to hit refresh after enabling it on a page, but that's it. No special extensions required.
(This doesn't work on all paywalls. Just the ones that initially deliver you the content on the page before some javascript takes it away.)
Mastodon FeedAnyone who claims transitioning is a fad should have to sit through at least an hour of electrolysis with no pain management
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
just what we need: Yet Another Separate Bureaucracy and another simultaneous Consolidation Turf War. (IMHO this would be another very foolish organizational move)
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
so very twisted:
“Also on the panel was Libby Locke, a well-known media defamation lawyer who has pushed for judicial review of Sullivan, as well as state-level legislation that could make it easier for plaintiffs to bring and win libel cases…
Ms. Locke’s firm filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News on Dominion’s behalf. Fox has invoked Sullivan as part of its defense.”
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's not the *best* reason to leave a technical ecosystem, but when React's influencers fail to understand browser and OS schedulers while pitching a userland scheduler, maybe keep an eye out for smoke?
Fire is highly probable.
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allenholub@mstdn.social ("Allen Holub") wrote:
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est@emily.news ("emily :verified_gay:") wrote:
Mastodon FeedTokyo then (1984) and now (2021)
Mastodon FeedI wish Apple would make a watch that just has all the health sensors in it but no screen. It could look like a jewelry version of the AirTag.
Mastodon FeedOoops, I've messed up DNS for https://lib.rs. It's going to be down for …however long it takes the registrar to designate new nameservers.
Mastodon FeedPSA: drinkcann.com does shipping now.
Mastodon FeedFast & Furious and the UN climate change conference.
Both with more sequels than one would hope necessary.
