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0 pointsslipperydippery7mo ago0 comments

I was reminded how fucked the modern web is a couple years ago when I encountered a so-fast-it-felt-like-local-static-html website dashboard that could have been a "web app", but wasn't.

It was being hosted on another continent. It was written in PHP. It was rendering server-side with just some light JS on my end.

That used to be the norm.

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hnfong7mo ago

When you mention that you're used to rendering HTML on the server side and don't use React on the frontend to do things, modern web people just look at you like you committed a crime or something (VanillaJS! the horror! Those thirty lines of Javascript would be unmaintainable without a deployment tool!!!!).

It's really hard to fight the trend especially in larger orgs.

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0 pointsslipperydippery7mo ago0 comments

I was reminded how fucked the modern web is a couple years ago when I encountered a so-fast-it-felt-like-local-static-html website dashboard that could have been a "web app", but wasn't.

It was being hosted on another continent. It was written in PHP. It was rendering server-side with just some light JS on my end.

That used to be the norm.

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hnfong7mo ago

It's really hard to fight the trend especially in larger orgs.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse