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srxl
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frontend is fine, you're probably just shoving a framework where you don't need one because the vast vast plurality of frontend education has taught you the tools and techniques for building enterprise-scale apps that grind your browser to a halt, because that's what capital wants to produce. there's quite a hole in the "diy blog website" level of education, and i'd love to see more resources teaching practical webdev skills for the hobby project level.

but, in the meantime, the best advice i can give is to strip it down to the basics. figure out what you want to build, and only bring in what you need to build it. it doesn't have to be hard. but the tech industry can keep creating busywork for itself if they tell you it is. just ignore react, ignore tailwind, ignore vite, ignore everything until you need it.


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in reply to @eramdam's post:

the discipline has been partitioned into two subdisciplines based almost entirely on how much data is typically handled and what kinds of machines the code runs on. this has created some pretty astonishingly divergent bodies of work, but much worse than that neither learns from the other, and they are continuously reinventing each other's shit on a wide scale. the last decade of frontend paradigms were just replaying application ui development from the 90s and early 2000s, backend jobs only ask you if you know how to solve leetcode algorithm gotchas that require dynamic programming to be fast, and frontend jobs only ask if you already use their specific framework.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i’m really annoyed by the fuck javascript tag because they’re always accompanied by posts that just seem annoyed about not being able to use a perfect programming language that has no quirks or flaws idk.

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