The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.
But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.
Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:
@slightlyoff I feel like it might be worth to dive into the hype-driven culture in software development more generally - having watched the SPA hype spin up from up close, that appears to be where it originates from (and it's far from the only or first problem to do so).
@slightlyoff Looking forward to seeing your thoughts on it :)
@joepie91 @slightlyoff Does this earlier piece not cover that? https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
@joepie91 A good thought. There's two more installments yet to go. They don't focus on that specifically, but I can try to rework the last post to touch on it.