Alex RussellFeb 5, 2023

Yet another team at work staring down months of remediation thanks to "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in (even more splenetic) drafts.

The Market for Lemons

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Alex Russell
Show threadGarth Kidd

“Maybe blogs should have beta channels?”
— @slightlyoff further down in the reply chain

More seriously, this is a lovely rant. If you’re at all involved in developing interaction on the web I commend it to you.

Feb 6, 2023 at 3:01amWeb