The blunt truth of front-end engineering is that no user cares how beautiful your system is, only if it helps them solve their problem.
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Doing so quickly, without confusion...being the butler of intent...this is the task. It's what we do. Doing it well means invisibility!
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but what about "I build progressive web apps"?
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: that matters to the extent it helps people solve their problems, preferably more easily and w/ less friction than alternatives
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It's like the worst aspects of backend dev culture were brought into the front-end.
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: they were. We gorged ourselves on Intel and wifi and got caught with our pants down when Arm and 3g turned into "computing"
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I dunno man, I see more over-engineering and technical hang wringing in FED land these days than even Java land
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: ...hence the problem.
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Spot on unfortunately. Why change the code when it does what it needs to do, even it if is unruly, and creates problems down the road.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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