shork @noiob@awoo.space

A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reins, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted userland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".

This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.

They could not have been more wrong.

JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.

https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

evil in its purest form

I went to the library today – and, well, I simply *had* to get this book!

This is the utopia I'm here for!

("Hypersonic trains – requirements for a European network at 7200 km/h".)

Faszinierend, dass trotz Pandemie die einfachsten Regeln nie zum Konsens wurden: Maskentragen in Öffis ist sinnvoll für jene, die Husten & Schnupfen haben (nicht Aufgabe jener, die sich schützen wollen). Und wenn man krank ist, geht man nicht arbeiten. Es wäre nicht kompliziert.

My son is _furious_ that the servos he’s using in his grade school robotics club project have five degrees of play in their responsiveness and none of his test runs are replicable, and he’s angry that anyone would sell random unreliable junk like this to save a few bucks. I did not expect him to become radicalized by a grade-school engineering extracurricular but I fully approve.