Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine

Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by sangnoir on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:01PM (#35392709)

Twitter contributed a lot to Map-Reduce, ETL and Scala communities: IMO they punched above thier weight.

Sadly, I think their best open-source contribution days are behind them with all the hardcore engineering they now have to do with fewer engineers.

Edit: I forgot about Bootstrap! That projects saved the world from millions of ugly web apps and dashboards built by clueless backend engineers.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by culi on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:00AM (#35397557)

On the other hand, I kinda loathe Bootstrap. I started web dev a bit after it peaked so maybe that's why but I'm so sick of the look and find it hard to think people ever thought it was good.

Another trend Twitter popularized that I can't wait to die: absurdly large border-radiuses

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by Kye on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:41PM (#35401675)

The world before was still riding high on the euphoria of AJAX and Web 2.0, doing all kinds of whacky things that looked pretty but were completely unusable. Chrome was out there optimizing JavaScript processing so people could do more on the same hardware, and do more they did! It was a nightmare.

Bootstrap helped establish a baseline of usability both for end users and web developers. People who might have been tempted down the path of the latest unusable shiny were kept in line.

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