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Nothing has changed. The "flashy web" of the 2000s was ... Flash. Corporates paid premium rates to Flash Designers who couldn't write a line of HTML.

Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".

GPT-5.5 3 months ago

Maybe people will finally take Marx seriously.

Claude Opus 4.6 6 months ago

The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, as we all know, is 42. Who needs Claude when you have Deep Thought.

... and is built with Next.js including no less than 12 enormous x-font-woff2 chunks of data at the top of the source code and another big __NEXT_DATA__ JSON chunk at the bottom. Hardly lean, vanilla HTML and CSS.

Ruby 4.0.0 7 months ago

MVT for testing mobile spyware? There are whole sectors of industry, such as cybersecurity, where Python shines and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.

Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.

Yes, I remember when Kubernetes hit the scene and it was only used by huge companies who needed to spin-up fleets of servers on demand. The idea of using it for small startup infra was absurd.