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Hot take: node.js was a mistake
No monitors above 1920x1200 and they must code in bright sunlight at least 8 hours a day. I'm convinced some websites look like ass because the developers haven't look at anything below 4k. Maybe ever. Some may not have seen sunlight in years. Not everything needs to be made for dark viewing with white text everywhere.
Oh god, yes, I wish they had to work in a bright environment. Every other website (and even some desktop applications) feel like it was coded by someone who hasn't left their basement since Obama was still in office.
I mean, seriously, how can people unironically say stuff like 'black text on a white background hurts my eyes'? Turn on the fricking lights damn it. Staying in badly lit environments is bad for your eyesight anyway.
Also, while we're at it, I am also not a fan of grey text on a grey background. Okay, rant over.
Designer != Web developer
Your anger is misdirected.
Bold of you to assume most sites and apps have designers.
Even the ones that don't agree following designers, just not ones they work with.
Those giant JavaScript frameworks, and more importantly for design, CSS frameworks don't pop out of thin air. .
The entire world was and still is in material design because it reads the blessed Google design.
"I can build my website in 5 minutes using SquirtSpace or Bro-Daddy! Who needs IT anymore."
"I asked ChatGPT to prompt Claude to build my site."
My work laptop has 64GB and it legitimately takes 5mins to delete my node_modules folder 💀 Though that might just be an SSD speed bottleneck ig
2GB? Barely enough for the VM of the Docker of the flatpack for the cloud mouse driver's DRM!
Dicker is the new container virtualization technology.
it uses middle-out compression
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4k fullscreen uncompressed picture is a bit under 24MB. (3840*2160/1024/1024*3 = 23.73)
Which is why you show a lower-res preview as default. Don't want to wait a fucking minute to decide if i like your picture or not.
Which reminds me, Chrome/ium/Firefox's dev tools have a bandwith limiting feature. A lot of so-called web developers don't know that.
or 29.66 MB @ 10-bit
I used to have hard drives smaller than that.
They misspelt 640K
Your 100 MB webäpp is still shit, in every metric.
What about in imperial?
If you can't do it in 64K, it's not worth doing.
- Somebody important who used a CoCo and then IBM.
Instructions unclear, the site is now best viewed with at 640K Transcendent HD.
Bill Gates said you'd never need more than that.
I want to load more than one website at a time, so 2GB is generous
Maybe give them around 8GB for the machine they're doing the development on? Assuming they're not running windows...
I think 2 would be to little for the OS, development environment and whatever else someone needs.
2 should be enough, if you don't use an electron based ide. This used to be normal
There were websites that did way more than the typical framework bundled REACT crapfest with way fewer resources 20 years ago - those developers didn't have any problems making them.
The free lunch of being lazy and expecting the user to upgrade their way out of bad, inefficient code needs to end.
As long as they are forced to test in a browser sandboxed to 200mb that's fine
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