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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 18 Oct 2019
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    Alex Russell Retweeted Fronteers Conference

    There are folks who want you to believe it isn't a problem that "modern" frontend starts with 35KiB of JS and scales obscenely from there. The mobile web ecosystem is collapsing because of JS emissions. We can't afford denial any more.https://twitter.com/FronteersConf/status/1185099012128595970 …

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    Fronteers Conference @FronteersConf
    Alex Russell (@slightlylate) stood on our stage exactly 2 weeks ago and gave a wakeup call about the state of the mobile web. He explains what we must do to help the web succeed on mobile. https://vimeo.com/fronteers/2019-alex-russell …
    7:53 AM - 18 Oct 2019
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      1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 18 Oct 2019
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        In the talk, I go into the consequences of things continuing apace: the web will (continue to) be a legacy, desktop-mostly environment and web developers will be more like Fortan/COBOL programmers than a growing, vibrant discipline.

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      2. Nathan Schloss‏ @n8Schloss 18 Oct 2019
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        The web cannot compete with native if websites are unable to run even a fraction of the code native apps can. Browsers (and also websites/frameworks) need to change in order to enabling running more client side, but this needs to be collaborative.

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      3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 18 Oct 2019
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        Absolutely agree on collaboration! The way I decompose the problem is to focus on "how much work are we doing per interaction?" You see this here: https://github.com/slightlyoff/never_slow_mode … If you think about this as "what is the price of tapping on a button?", we get closer.

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      2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 18 Oct 2019
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        Replying to @slightlylate

        There are some who will try to sell you on fairy tales of Use the Platform because that is all they know. The old model of browsers is built like a pyramid scheme.

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      3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 18 Oct 2019
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        I don't much care *how* you reduce your JS emissions. I only care that you do.

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      2. Mathias Schreiber‏ @mattLefaux 18 Oct 2019
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        Replying to @slightlylate

        what about a tax on JS emissions?

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      3. Jazz Defender  ☘️  🎹‏ @mattmangels 18 Oct 2019
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        Replying to @mattLefaux @slightlylate

        JavaScript needs its own Greta Thunberg.

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      2. Paweł Lesiecki‏ @liseuek 18 Oct 2019
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        Web devs in general don't give a fack about perf. Better focus on business peeps by penalizating SEO rank because of bad perf. It works ;)

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      3. isiah meadows  🧢‏ @isiahmeadows1 18 Oct 2019
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        Business peeps care less about perf than web devs in general, and many of them will literally force devs to do something (like adopting a certain framework) that itself kills perf. Literally not kidding here.

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      1. HTeuMeuLeu‏ @HTeuMeuLeu 20 Oct 2019
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        I'm totally behind your point. But I'm wondering how responsible of this you think your company is. Analytics adds over a 100 Kb to every websites that uses it. Embedding a Youtube video takes over 1 Mb. Reading an email in Gmail requires over 10 Mb.

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