I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore

Re:I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore by pupppet on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:47AM (#37929476)

I don’t blame the tooling, there’s nothing stopping you from creating an old school PHP website.

I blame the audience. These JS frameworks and cloud-everything services exist to shave every possible millisecond off from the experience because we all have the attention spans of a goldfish now.

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Re:I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore by Telemakhos on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:57AM (#37929624)

I made my personal website mostly static (just some Apache server-side includes) with no js. It’s astounding how much faster it is than any other website I use. If you really want to get the goldfish audience, eschew the scripting.

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Re:I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore by born2discover on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:02AM (#37929699)

According to the lore a goldfish has an attention span of about 3 seconds, are you sure humans nowadays have one *that long* ?

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