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The Harness Is the Thing

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Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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post #76

> Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams. Yet the simple blog website static page saying that looks very weird and broken on the desktop firefox. How large should be a development team to make proper margins in 2026?

Large development team... that is exactly the problem. The more effort and code put into it the worse it gets. Peak web was one webmaster per site, doing it by hand.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

#102
post #76

> Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams. Yet the simple blog website static page saying that looks very weird and broken on the desktop firefox. How large should be a development team to make proper margins in 2026?

> weird and broken Weird, yes. Broken, I don't think so. Seems to just be a matter of taste.

If it's not rendering as intended across all browsers, I'd call that broken. If it renders as intended and just look bad, that's taste.
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