Sillypedia (and a rant about web tech)
Talking about Sillypedia.
I'm a dev on-and-off for the last 20 fucking years. God I'm aging. Hard to say I was a developer at 14 when roughly learning CSS/HTML for MySpace. But it was the start of my journey.
And I'm a cranky old person. I'm 34. Not that old.
And I hate many trends in software development - especially in web.
So React / JS Ecosystem (Lifetime Pact) by SillyPedia caught my eye. I was just hoping for someone to rag on one of my most hated web technologies.
I haven't used React or gotten into JS Ecosystems. I refused to even use Jquery back in the day because of the overhead of including it in your webpage. I'm reasonably skilled with vanilla javascript.
But React - and other modern web technologies - are responsible for so much of the slowness of the modern web.
Oh and by slowness, I mean a page taking maybe 1-3 seconds to load. When I was first doing serious web dev, my goal was to get a response to the browser in 50ms (when I had a VPS. Shared Hosting isn't fast enough just on raw connection. Processing should still be 50ms or less.). That's 20 responses PER SECOND. And these days we're getting one response every 1-3 seconds on most websites (though a server will process many requests in parallel so it's not like they're held in a queue like at a drive through). Some are even slower though.
So yeah, I was attracted to the React JS article. And its good. Go read it.
And then I saw this post about cloudfare, which raises a serious concern about over-centralization, but mainly is just funny and silly.
So yeah. SillyPedia is now in my fave bloggers list.