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> Everybody seems to have an opinion on how you do your web dev and how websites and web apps should be structured. It’s true and it leads to many annoying unproductive arguments, IMO the reason is a fundamental lack of a scientific mindset in evaluating techniques and tooling. We don’t have theories or testable hypotheses, we have opinions. On one level I like and agree with the author’s idea that results are what r…
> Everybody seems to have an opinion on how you do your web dev and how websites and web apps should be structured. It’s true and it leads to many annoying unproductive arguments, IMO the reason is a fundamental lack of a scientific mindset in evaluating techniques and tooling. We don’t have theories or testable hypotheses, we have opinions. On one level I like and agree with the author’s idea that results are what r…
> Everybody seems to have an opinion on how you do your web dev and how websites and web apps should be structured. It’s true and it leads to many annoying unproductive arguments, IMO the reason is a fundamental lack of a scientific mindset in evaluating techniques and tooling. We don’t have theories or testable hypotheses, we have opinions. On one level I like and agree with the author’s idea that results are what r…
It's shocking to me how little data there seems to be to support what many consider to be "best practice". About the only real data point I see thrown around is that bugs per LOC being fairly constant. Thus, you get people saying long, two-page functions are bad and should be broken up. But never have I seen someone backup such an exhortation with data. Let alone more nebulous rules like "objects should be open for e…
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The animations are causing me distress. They're jittery as opposed to bouncy.
Which animations? I def would want to fix/tweak that
Otherwise it's an awesome site, the wii shop remix still puts a grin on my face
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The focus/blur animations are definitely jarring.
Are you referring to focusing/blurring on a textarea/input? (Eg when clicking a card and then it’s text?)
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Americans increasingly do that all the time. It's super weird as a (relatively) young American to treat anybody differently from anybody else.
I feel like in the American workplace we’re expected to be casual and friendly with everyone while also being acutely aware of rank. So if your boss sends a silly meme, you might want to reply with another silly meme. But if you go over your boss’s head and send an unsolicited “hey ” email, you might still be in for repercussions. Just because everyone is on a first name basis and drinks beer together at happy hour d…
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Are you confusing SEO with performance? Lighthouse does have a SEO category but it isn't exposed through the PSI web app.
Google uses (or at least used to use) page speed results as one of the ranking factors for their SERP .
The title is confusing. Do we need much better apps? Or more, better apps? “More better” is such a mind fuck
i admit it’s confusing to have in the headline (easier to make sense of after he’s covered the background), but the language is sort of constraining in this area. he probably wanted to avoid “more good apps” as that would be mistaken for “better apps” (which isn’t exactly what he’s after). “more better apps” is less ambiguous, but only so long as you expect that the author isn’t one to intentionally misuse language.
He should try mobile development, it's much more worse in my opinion. I'm a mobile dev fyi.
This is the reality that has been grinding me down of late. Nor do I find it limited to only web stuff. I see it in embedded and other market areas.
I was excited over the last few decades to see the field of programmers swell. I have always loved the craft of good software development. I was so excited to see so many others also get into it and naively believed that many more people participating would lead to a larger pool of ideas to draw from and everyone would get on board in some sort of utopian democratic industry wide kumbaya. During the rise of open source, I even felt it was really happening.
I now believe I was wrong.