Alex RussellJul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

Show threadLorewegian 📚Jul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff feels like software overall has just been getting progressively worse in the past 30 years
Show threadChris Wagner
@lore @slightlyoff cat and mouse between hardware and software engineers. I can’t imagine how frustrating it is for hardware engineers to watch us software engineers pissing away their advances. But at the same time… job security?
Jul 9, 2023 at 5:35pmWeb
Show threadLorewegian 📚Jul 9, 2023
@cwagdev @slightlyoff i write some embedded code and the most frustrating part of the experience is never the hardware itself. it's always the tooling and APIs that my fellow software developers made for it that i hate. i did it for a job for 15 years but had enough of it.