You might not keep up with things on Twitter, but SPAs are out. It's really a relic of an older time.
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Typically it's better to just let the fever ride when you have a virus, unless it's making you you so uncomfortable you can't rest/sleep.
Yet this is what all the JS people were saying in 2014 - 2015 when everything started to become SPA. They argued this is what the users want. That's been used to justify all this stuff for a very long time if you're on Twitter. When it gets traction within Twitter it leaks into orgs. It's the same argument that's used now for all the SSG,SSR,hydration,edge and whatever other buzzword.
The internet is miserable because of all these React sites. I know first hand because my wife has a Chromebook. Yet developers won't listen because they think 6x cpu slow down is good enough to test with on their $4000 Mac book pro.
If users really don't care that much about performance then why aren't we just rendering html and sending new html on every interaction. That's much easier to do, performs pretty well from a CPU/Memory standpoint.
We've taken on a lot of complexity over the years in defense of the users. The argument I go back to is what is "good enough" and the developers/product/design I've worked with don't know what this word means.
> Experts not involved with the study said the VA population does not reflect the general population.
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My experience is: devops is introduced to 2 orgs I was at (much smaller dev teams) to save money. Even though hiring devops negates any savings, but that's another story. They introduce Kubernetes (even though existing solutions were fine) as the flavor of the month to build up their resumes. They all leave after 6 months to a year and dev teams are stuck with the cleanup trying support and be in call for things we had no say in. It's harder to see logs, get a rails console, deploy, debug, etc.
Meanwhile they also spent 6 months trying to get PR apps and staging environments at one company. Something that is one click on Heroku.
If we didn't have Heroku at these companies when we started out we would have literally failed. End of story.
Things were never a problem when devs just managed this stuff. We used Heroku or Capistrano on plain EC2 and it was fine. Once you hit scale and things become more expensive then Docker on ECR / Fargate is fine. This whole dev ops fad just has to go.
I think Devops has a played a huge role in why things have gotten more complicated. They want Kubernetes to be the solution to all problems. Heroku has fallen out of fashion for literally no reason. They won't even consider ElasticBeanstalk or App runner for even the smallest of projects. Companies would rather hire a 200k plus benefits person instead of paying a few hundred dollars more a month on hosted solutions. I've honestly never seen anything like it.
Anyway, my son is 7 and that probably won't work too much longer. We generally don't have imposed limits but if it's getting pretty late we'll just kill the internet on the device. This works pretty well because he plays all games on Xbox Play, mainly Fortnite. I honestly don't care if he sits and plays for hours because I did that around his age. The problem is, games were much harder back then because you played something like Contra 3 and lost and you basically wanted to throw the controller in the garbage. Now games are too easy.
He has been discouraged to play the Solo/Duos/Trio's in Fortnite because it can be a hard game. He mainly plays the "custom games" now and if he's on too long I'll just connect and go into the game and beat him a bunch of times until he's discouraged and turns it off. haha.
I don't know what to do when he's older, because I had no time limits on anything. I just generally balanced it out myself
Iron pans, store in glass, butter, lard. If you spill stuff on a couch just live with it. Buy leather. Too many things are made because people are lazy. If you have kids don't have nice stuff, it's very easy.
We need basic cooking classes in high school and have governments pushing only stainless steel and iron cookware.