I wrote about how a framework choice can harm people in a moment of crisis. #webperf https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life.

@eric This is fantastic, Eric. Thank you 💜
@beep thanks for reading 💜
@eric even though I like working with many of these frameworks… this one hits home. Read it all!
@kevtiq Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it.
@eric It’s so surprising to me how unstable (and inaccessible) many web/software products are, given the amount of cash and people in the industry. I suppose it’s a sign of incompetence and lack of care for quality. It should be easier to find organizations and products that do care about these things when choosing products and services. 🤔
@herrherrmann I'm firmly in the camp that services like this should be handled the way architects handle creating buildings.
@eric Eric, this is incredibly well put. Thank you for sharing 💛
@ben Thanks for reading it, Ben. Glad you're here.
@eric This rings so true. We need more empathy for users. And when they can’t accomplish what they want, that very well could be the last time they try.
@eric Excellent article, Eric. Well said.

@eric Your article is excellent. I'll be sharing it at work tomorrow because I know some folks who need the message.

Thank you!

@eric excellent as always. thank you.
@eric This was posted across multiple channels at my work today in both our Teams and Slack instances (not by me). I’m so glad my teammates who generally are not super active online in the web dev/a11y/design communities were able to read it. It really is a wonderful post. 🤗
@levimcg Thank you for reading it, and for sharing it.
@eric thank you for sharing, it can't have been easy to write about this
@NicMakesStuff Appreciate you reading it, Nic.

@eric Great article! 100% resonated with the frustrations and the annoyance with modern JS frameworks.

I feel like (hope?) the push towards server-side rendering can alleviate some of these issues by shipping less JS to clients and displaying errors appropriately. But we’ll see how that shakes out in the coming years. Also doesn’t help the current sites though

@eric This really resonated with me. I’m in an area where EPIC’s MyChart has overrun the medical infrastructure. I’ve had similar experiences and — when trying to schedule an urgent followup appointment with my doc — used those exact words: “What if I were suicidal?” The workarounds to their own systems that frontline staff have developed are impressive. I don’t know whose life those systems are supposed to be improving, ‘cause it’s sure not the people forced to use them.

@tom_streeter This really resonates with you. I’ve had to be in hospitals a lot lately and I always try to ask the care staff what they think of Epic.

Their answers are, ah, illuminating.