I continue to be dumbfounded by programmer articles (and project pages for that matter) that would benefit immensely from leading with screenshots and videos but instead bury or omit them, opting for "a thousand words" that fail to deliver.

You're writing about desktop environments. Show pics.

I don't think that the author could have conveyed the same thing with less text and more images and videos. I agree that many project pages (all those about an app with a GUI) could use a screenshot though.

Author here: maybe find another review from a site that is more interesting for you then? Not everything in the internet is for everyone, and this is also true for life.

This is my blog, those are my own rules, otherwise I would never get any blog post published.

Reader here: maybe listen to reader feedback? If your goal is to write into the ether to generate training data for LLMs, then by all means, continue! As a human, I'm trying to communicate ideas and thoughts to people. When people don't understand what I'm trying to transmit to them, I adjust my transmissions to better and more. effectively communicate with them.

My goal is really... Nothing, I guess? I write things that I found interesting. If you look at the submission I wasn't even the person that did it, someone else found it and posted it here.

My blog is not for other humans, it is mostly for me. Sometimes other humans find it interesting and that is fine, but they're almost never the target.

If my objective was to have popular blog posts read by other humans, yes, I would definitely take the feedback by heart (even if the way OP worded is unnecessarily passive aggressive). But no, it is not, and this is why I said what I said (that not everything is for everyone).

Please test your site on a phone. 2fps while scrolling text is not ok.

Very choppy scrolling, if you delete the whole "mentions" section in dev console, then the page will scroll smoothly again.

MacBook Pro Late 2013, Core i7, Chrome (128.0). Same problems.

(perhaps it's the fadeout effects while scrolling causing this?)

yeah I was lagging as well on desktop and no wonder... the site made 2659 requests to what appears to be display pictures of people who commented on the post.

Hmm. Maybe you should test the site on a different phone. Not seeing an issue with responsiveness here.

I'm personally seeing quite terrible things on desktop, here is a snapshot of the homepage: https://i.imgur.com/VfNwqi7.png

Here is a snapshot of the post itself: https://i.imgur.com/61b7ADn.png

To note, I cannot click on any of the buttons in the top-right to control what I could or learn more about this person.

There's definitely something wrong with the scroll performance. I'm seeing bad performance as well on a pixel 8 pro. If I weren't on mobile I'd pop open devtools and check for excessive layout recalculations

While this is impressive, how come you can't make your website scroll without stutter?

because the guy spent more time shipping the product than iterating on the website that describes the product. (Deadly sin of every startup wannabe)

Some old-enough browsers don't support SSL. At all.

Also, something I often see non-technical people fall victim to is that if your clock is off, the entirety of the secure web is inaccessible to you. Why should a blog (as opposed to say online banking) break for this reason?

Even older browsers that support SSL often lack up-to-date root certificates, which prevents them from establishing trust with modern SSL/TLS certificates.

Fairly recently I attempted to get an (FPGA-emulated) Amiga, a G4 Power Macintosh running System 9.2, and a Win2000sp4 Virtual Machine online (just for very select downloads of trusted applications, not for actual browsing). It came as a huge surprise to find that the Win2K VM was the biggest problem of the three.

How old are these browsers and why should I let them online? Must be decades old.

Android versions prior to 4.4 support only TLS 1.0 which is deprecated and many old devices aren't upgradable. The same for Mobile IE 10.

IE 10 in Windows Server 2008 doesn't support TLS 1.1+ by default.

Yup, my last phone upgrade was prompted by this.

But the old phone is significantly better at making actual phone calls than the new one.

Why is it your job to police the browsers people use?

> Must be decades old.

So? If they still power on and are capable of talking HTTP over a network, and you don't require the transfer of data that needs to be secured, why shouldn't you "let" them online?

I don't know about you, but I'd rather my ancient laptop not end up as part of a botnet simply because I visited the wrong website with it.

Why you shouldn’t use old, unpatched software on an open network that doesn’t support modern protocols?

Beats me.

Usually browsers on hobbyist legacy operating systems, to which modern browsers haven’t or can’t be ported, not to mention keeping root certificates up to date. Or even if they do support SSL, then only older algorithms and older versions of the protocol. It’s nice to still be able to browse at least part of the web with those.

The problem is usually SSL support, the problem is that older SSL and TLS versions are being disabled.

I actually have an example myself - an iPad 3. Apple didn't allow anyone else than themselves to provide a web browser engine, and at some point they deliberately stopped updates. This site used to work, until some months ago. I currently use it for e-books, if that wasn't the case I think it by now it would essentially be software bricked.

I acknowledge that owning older Apple hardware is dumb. I didn't pay for it, though.

Agreed! Nothing that can't be easily remedied though! https://www.remove.bg/

Care to share the salary range?

What's the salary range?

Barely Sociable did an amazing video on this: https://youtu.be/3Ws3YptLmLQ

Don't want to spoil anything, but locked down phone doesn't always mean it's a brick :-)

I recently read a thread about privacy here. One point was that the one best thing you can do is disable JavaScript. So I decided to try it. I installed Brave on my phone and disabled pretty much everything, including all cookies.

My thinking was, all I do is browse HN, hn.algolia, and lobsters. Those should work, right? Well lobsters works perfectly, including collapsing comments.

HN loses the ability to collapse comments. But algolia is the worst. Not only does it require JS, being an SPA, but it refuses to work until you enable cookies! My theory is that it reads the settings (popular, 24-hour) from a cookie, and plain dies if they're not there.

On another note, and to a pleasant surprise, a lot of the web works perfectly fine, and feels a lot snappier, including even google search. And many of the annoying cookie and paywall popups never appear, since they appear to be implemented in JS.

So yes, if you haven't tried it, I recommend you do. You can always whitelist sites you trust or really need to use.

The pro-Russia Mexico argument is a bit off, I agree. But please don't compare the Baltic countries to a 44 million population country. We'd barely fill half of Kiev.