Posts by bendelarre@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ASZnNpFgczmecwngvo by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-02-11T17:08:16Z
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@seldo @brianleroux I think that's fair and have seen it in play in orgs I work with. "This is what we know and can move fastest with" is always the baseline reasoning.That doesn't mean that its the right choice in the long run. The oil comparison is apt, we all know it's bad, we all know there are better alternatives and yet many of us continue to abuse our environment for what people keep selling us is easy and fast.Doesn't make it right, we just need to keep arguing to open people's eyes!
(DIR) Post #ATao0i0aPakidm0ikC by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T02:42:22Z
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@seldo did you read the whole thread?The point isn't that you must learn fundamentals. It's that learning above and below the abstractions you work in teach you more about your abstractions, and imho that knowledge is the difference between average and good.You don't *need* to learn how your abstraction du jour is built, nor how those layers above stack up, and Alex calls that out. But in doing so you will be better prepared for the changes to come and a better developer for it.
(DIR) Post #ATdwsakZtkn0zgeB6W by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T23:09:05Z
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Folks tell me you don't need to know fundamentals for web dev.Tell that to my trace showing an infinite scrolling background being animated by timeout and JS rather than CSS animation and transform.Can't even hit 60fps on a 3000$ dev machine.React is not your friend, learn CSS.
(DIR) Post #ATdwscHwBD4HlRGKjw by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T23:12:27Z
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M1 MacBooks are going to be the death of websites the world over. Every one issued to a dev team should have a 200$ Chromebook attached to it.
(DIR) Post #AUsxtjoBAbnMszezwm by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-04-21T18:47:48Z
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I see projects like this and am always impressed by how much one individual can get done. I miss the days where I had such energy / time.Also you gotta love how clean the code is in this project, the thoughtful and direct use of #webcomponents and #nodependencies!This is precisely the use case web components were designed for - providing clean reusable components that can enhance a static HTML experience with interactive functionality.https://hachyderm.io/@stargirl/110233936509196925#webdevelopment #webdev
(DIR) Post #AcFIiredeOZSzTjprM by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-11-27T21:47:37Z
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Having gotten back to San Francisco, I’m not sure what’s making me feel more ill. The Covid/Flu I picked up from Plague Island (UK) or the colleagues comparing state management libraries using LLMs!I guess hallucinating bullshit machines are just as good at randomly picking from a multitude of choices without clear rationale, scientific evidence or real world experience as your average dev! What could possibly go wrong…
(DIR) Post #ActnxWbZ4SXH2aj4ZU by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2023-12-15T17:19:16Z
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The new #github based on #react is an abject failure to improve the user experience. On every count it is objectively worse than previous iterations.Page load time is poor, interactivity is gated seemingly on very large JS loads. Initial page layout is broken on mobile and randomly resizes the width of the viewport after loading. The number of micro-annoyances seem to be adding up daily.This is like an object lesson in what not to do to your successful webapp.
(DIR) Post #Azcp47pnMyJQ3mO2Cm by bendelarre@mastodon.social
2025-10-26T22:40:31Z
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@slightlyoff for some reason the React ecosystem seems to have never learnt that as a library developer, everytime you abstract away complexity with 'magic' you make a footgun your users will shoot themselves with.