I think it’s largely overlooked that the purpose of React *was* in part about better UX by decoupling rendering from data-heavy apps (like FB) for perceived speed.

Today, it’s about investing as little as possible in front end so you can get on with Delivering Results.

Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if they’d installed that modem on someone else’s PC.

Absolute luck of the draw that I got obsessed with the web just as it was becoming the hot new thing, like I’d managed to lasso a passing comet.

I dug in harder than anything I’d ever studied in school. I’d lie awake at night thinking about all the things I could build with…HTML 3.2

Like, did you ever consider you could just fetch() data

and like

render it

It’s such a pleasing word silhouette!

there’s gonna be a bunch of Norton-like solutions that block chatbots for a monthly subscription aren’t there cool cool cool