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by wackget 9mo ago
Don't blame the users. Unless Google have hidden a copy of Crysis inside the Gmail app there's no hidden functionality which should come even close to requiring hundreds of megabytes.
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by wackget 9mo ago
> On the frontend, you have build pipelines, bundlers, CSS frameworks with their own toolchains, progressive web apps, Core Web Vitals, SEO, layout shifts, srcset/responsive images… I remember when the biggest challenge was IE6 comp
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by wackget 9mo ago
We used MongoDB's cloud offering (Atlas) and have had nothing but problems with it. Like, serious problems - "production down for multiple days" problems caused entirely by MongoDB messing up SSL certificates on their end. We
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by wackget 9mo ago
Link without Google tracking parameter (`si`): https://youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0
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by wackget 10mo ago
I wish they'd release CSS Gap Decorations: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-decorations I'm tired of having to use stupid hacks to get nice-looking borders between flex/grid items.
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by wackget 10mo ago
I feel like all these articles are writing about the wrong thing. Yeah, it sucks that the guy's account got banned, and yeah, maybe we can't trust gift cards. But the truly troublesome issue is how an entire ecosystem of (very e
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by wackget 10mo ago
This incredibly simple text-based website doesn't work without enabling JavaScript and allowing XHR in uMatrix. Why not "just use HTML"?
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by wackget 10mo ago
You forgot to mention Google's upcoming developer verification push, which will prevent users installing apps - even from third-party sources - if the developers have not verified their identity with Google: https://develope
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by wackget 10mo ago
> "a modern AI browser" No thanks. Absolutely not.
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by wackget 10mo ago
If anyone from Planetscale is reading this, please know I hate what you did to your website. I previously had it bookmarked as an example of excellent, usable website design. About a year ago it turned into a plaintext nightmare. The first
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by wackget 10mo ago
I'm not at all a fan of mass surveillance, but is it possible - just possible - that your statement might contain just a smidge of hyperbole?
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by wackget 10mo ago
Modern web developers: "Oh I just use Gulp, Jenkins, Babel, Yarn, Bower, Grunt, Slurp, Vite, and Rollup" Me: slowly backs away in disgust
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by wackget 10mo ago
I just checked out this game on Steam and was pretty excited to buy it until I read that it requires a kernel-level anticheat which acts as a rootkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard Why on earth is an
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by wackget 10mo ago
> made possible with support from Nixxes Software, best known for developing high-quality PC ports of Sony’s biggest PlayStation titles Now if only Nixxes would stop using Sony's stupid proprietary audio system in PC games, I'd
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by wackget 10mo ago
https://vimeo.com/39768998 > This video is not rated. Join vimeo to watch No thanks. Here's a YouTube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufs0Rwx8sOk
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by wackget 11mo ago
Giving Windows 11 the highest rating and XP one of the worst ratings clearly demonstrates that this author is not a serious person.
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by wackget 11mo ago
Incredible! In an astounding feat, it has only taken a mere two decades to enable the world's largest tech companies to provide the most basic levels of interopability. At this breakneck speed of technological development, one can only
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by wackget 11mo ago
Why is the UX around photos and videos in WhatsApp Web so incredibly poor? I have clients who regularly send me photos/videos to publish on websites. There are many usability issues around this: 1. There is no option to "download
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by wackget 11mo ago
The article text does not display properly on Firefox for me. The text gets cut off.
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by wackget 11mo ago
Honestly the site[1] is very basic and pretty damn slow. When I click into a different category there is a noticeable delay of 1-2 seconds before the new page loads. I don't want to replicate this in any of my own projects. 1: https:&
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by wackget 1y ago
> The team at Berg invested a lot of time developing the visual language and aesthetics of Little Printer, across the physical device and their web service. Shame they didn't bother to invest any time in making sure their expensive
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by wackget 1y ago
They are not conservatives. They are selfservatives.
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by wackget 1y ago
How do you explain away things like lobbying money (i.e. bribery), or politicians remaining in their post despite glaringly obvious physical and cognitive decline, or insider trading, or the stacking of courts with biased judges, or total l
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by wackget 1y ago
Let's be honest: most users don't know what they don't know. Even tech-literate people have no real idea of the enormity and scale of tracking which goes on across the web. And the tech giants love it that way.
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by wackget 1y ago
This will only work if the customers have a considerable amount of experience with computers already. For the vast majority of people, Linux is going to present insurmountable challenges which will only lead to serious frustration. I say th
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by wackget 1y ago
There's supposed to be a video at the bottom of the article but it's not visible in the UK due to Imgur blocking UK users. As annoying as Google's monopoly of the web is, I wish sites would just stick with YouTube for video c
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by wackget 1y ago
> The UI I think would require React is a wizard-style form with clientside rendered widgets (eg. tabs). Can you think of any example sites/web apps which illustrate what you mean? I'm imagining something like VSCode, but AFAIK
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by wackget 1y ago
Genuine question from an "old school" web developer: can someone please give me an example of where these new frontend technologies are actually better than just using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript or jQuery? I have honestly y
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by wackget 1y ago
I've been a web developer for over 20 years. I remain totally unconvinced of the need for frameworks.
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by wackget 1y ago
Am I the only one who still thinks any kind of build process does not belong in web development? If I'm making a typical website, all I'm using is a few PHP files, a single CSS file and maybe some JavaScript. There are no build st

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