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> Over twenty years ago, I learnt Web authoring by examining the source So did I. Now, it is impossible to reverse engineer the metric crapton of minified JS a
by titzer 5y ago
> Over twenty years ago, I learnt Web authoring by examining the source
So did I. Now, it is impossible to reverse engineer the metric crapton of minified JS and CSS cryptoglyphics that comprise the modern web.
- rollcat 5y agoTBH it's a little bit like complaining you can't open a modern binary executable in a hex editor and learn programming from that. Days of doing your regular coding by writing direct machine code or assembly are (mostly) gone, and for the sake of advancing the craft, I'm (mostly) happy with it. But I too wish the modern web was simpler. It took an evolutionary path of maintaining just enough backwards compatibility to only keep making things worse. Efforts like Gemini[1] bring some hope but I'm afraid the medium won't be flexible enough for much beyond personal blogs. But maybe that's for the better. [1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space; https://gemini.circumlunar.space; gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space