Ugghh, gas stations. I remember being able to use a pump without ads :(

The second button down from the top right usually mutes them.

Maybe they can finally make Jira responsive /s

Yes, that is correct.

Jira is a horrible tool I only use because I am forced to.

And those native web widgets generally match the OS theme

I think it was OK for web to have custom designs as it was things that you interact with on a needed basis (like reserving a ticket). Your desktop was a permanent place where programs were used daily, so you expect consistency there.

And yet 90+% of those SPA-apps have worse performance.

This. I fully get the in-theory argument that a thick SPA can make for a smoother experience, but that just makes it all the worse that all but the most exceptional SPAs are significantly worse in terms of responsiveness than a series of server-side rendered pages. (even gmail, which is pretty good they go, is laggy and can easy eat up 1GB of RAM)

The fact that people will copy/pasta from stack exchange, or add in massive packages from npm that do things other packages in other areas already do doesn't mean it has to be that way.

A dresser can be hand crafted from solid oak and built to last centuries, or it can be flat-pack barely better than cardboard with fake plastic oak veneer.

You can make a fully functional SPA with less than 1mb of payload, or you can create the hot garbage that is Jack In The Box's menu website, that delivers 48mb of insanely bloated JS garbage. And I only harp on them because it's the single worst SPA example I've seen to date.

For that matter, I think with some nice tooling HTMX can be a pretty great experience for most in-between usage.

It's all the buzzwords to justify the overcomplexity of web frontends.

I dislike Python for that reason. I don't love the offside-rule syntax, but compared to how often I have an issue with software written in Python due to some old/deprecated/broken packaging issue...

I've lately been pretty deep into 3d printing, and basically all the software has Python...and breaks quite easily. Whether because of a new version of Pip with some new packaging rule, forced venvs...I really don't like dealing with Python software.

You can? I haven't seen them.

You can indeed do so, but it requires a skillset way behind new grads, bootcamps and giving up the prevailing leadership mantra of "All engineers are fungible so just throw that random team over to learn React and it'll be fine".

Front End Engineer roles pay less than general Software Development Engineers at pretty much every FAANG and so you see a lot of FEEs want to transition. Not much senior talent gets kept in that kind of pipeline.

> Front End Engineer roles pay less than general Software Development Engineers at pretty much every FAANG

Not in my experience for the last 5 years, looking at two job ads and comparing the salary range, they are usually the same. Which FAANG still does this?

Google Maps from a decade ago was pretty decent. There's also GMail from around when it was new. That was all on crappier client hardware too.

Note that I didn't say anything about their _current_ incarnations…

A John Deere tractor used by mega farms.