Marijke LuttekesA new blog article, purposely non-technical, so you could share it with your manager.
"Why frontends fail when you approach them like a backend."
Lara@mahryekuh reminds me a of an article I wrote some time ago (https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/24/) :)
@lara_amalia Thanks for sharing! Your article is both mood, hammer, and nail. Excellent points.
It looks familiar to me so maybe I had read it in the past. I also remember that “feminine” comment by Heydon, which got me raging because he’s close to the truth, or even spot on, which is so ridiculous.
Which reminds me that I see a link somewhere between the desire to make the web usable for everyone, which requires some form of empathy, and the fact that the champions of the web’s destruction are often tech bros (who lack in empathy.)
@mahryekuh Thanks for your kind words!
Yes, unfortunately, the people who make decisions about where to invest the money often don't see the importance and value of a good frontend codebase. I discussed this a lot in the past couple of years and my conversation partners were exclusively men. 🥲
@lara_amalia I concluded early in my career that too often it’s more productive to (proverbally) shout at a wall than to convince certain people that quality is not a luxury.
(And yes, all men too, for a lack of women in tech.)g
@lara_amalia There was a guy though who made such an interesting remark, years ago:
When the sales department increases conversions by even 1%, flags go out, cake gets ordered, and they will celebrate success.
But when they have to chance to support hundreds of thousands of extra people through accessibility, for example, they don’t care, despite that being a huge pool of potential new clients.
@mahryekuh yeah… I don‘t get that. But it‘s great to see that there are a lot of people out there „fighting“ for a better and more inclusive web… :)