• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The one task that pretty much everyone agrees could be done by a monkey

    A phrase commonly uttered about web dev by mediocre programmers who spend 99% of the time writing the same copy-paste spring boot mid-tier code

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      1 year ago

      most of the websites are bloated and shit. Webdev is shit upon because they write code that can’t work 4 months without needing a rewrite

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        1 year ago

        A good chunk of that has to do with trackers and ads. Things forced on webdevs by management.

        Not that webdevs couldn’t improve anything otherwise; there are certainly optimizations to be had. But pop open the dev network panel on your browser, clear cache, and refresh the page. A lot of the holdup and dancing elements you’ll see are from third party trackers and ads.

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        I agree, and in addition to way too many trackers and advertisements clogging up the page, this is also due to the time, effort, and knowledge not being provided to write performant and compliant code, which should be important given the infinite possibilities of client machines. This can be worsened by only having full stack developers who aren’t knowledgeable in web dev (especially CSS) or by sacrificing performance for trendy javascript-bloated design features