Alex RussellDec 19, 2022

2022 is turning into a big year for Team Finding Out, and there's still a couple of weeks left, so join me in deciding that frontend's lost decade can also come to a close.

We can decide that the JS thinkfluencers actually *didn't* know what they were talking about and go HTML-first. And it can be better.

h/t, @noam:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/an-html-first-mental-model/

An HTML-first Mental Model

... while building a fast movies app Overview The Movies App The TasteJS movies app is a showcase for different frameworks. I was excited about it because it gave me an opportunity to test some hypothesis, and see if it holds in the context of an app that's a bit less trivial than TodoMVC.

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Show threadBrad Neuberg
@slightlyoff @noam interesting, what do you see as the webs lost decade? I’d love to hear that idea expanded upon.
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Show threadAlex RussellDec 19, 2022

@bradneuberg @noam it's an idea that's been percolating in my brain stem for a few years now; it was pretty clear to me by 2016 that we were in for a rough ride because the privilege bubble had no counterweight, and everything predicted has (sadly) come to pass.

A lot of it is in this talk from 2019:

https://vimeo.com/364402896

Alex Russell - The Mobile Web: MIA

Responsive Design didn't work, at least not the way we hoped it would. How do we know? Nearly a decade into the new reality of mobile eating everything, the…

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