A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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Anyone using Electron to build any greenfield app is a fucking moron, full stop.
When you have to consume 300+Mb of memory just to display 15Kb of text, when the exact same thing can be done in native code for less than 2Mb of memory, “moron” is the kind and gentle word to use.
Excuse me, but did you not see my fancy graphic and animation? And my cool autoplaying adverts? And the dickbar asking you to subscribe to my annoying newsletter?
I don't know what web you're looking for, but it's not the one I (and my many clients) design for. /s
/s I'm not a web designer or coder. I only host plain html. Shut up. It's sarcasm / satire done poorly.
Just use Qt and you're already cross-platform.
Or if it has to be web, you can get crazy far with a 15 kB HTML document and possibly some native JS.
2GB? Barely enough for the VM of the Docker of the flatpack for the cloud mouse driver's DRM!
Dicker is the new container virtualization technology.
it uses middle-out compression
It's been almost a year since I binged Silicon Valley, soon time to do it again!
I'm worried about the size of my container. Is 2gb big enough?
As a mobile developer, I got an email from google saying they're going to be adding new memory restrictions in apps and it'll crash if you exceed them.
Thanks google, for buying all the ram, and then punishing us for it.
i can see how this might evolve... someone, the app developer or the user, will end up having to pay google to let an app use more ram than google allows it to for 'free'.
They need this to compete with Apple, apple runs on a lot less Ram because it imposes such limits already, simply by not having as much RAM to begin with
Hot take: node.js was a mistake
js was a mistake
And it's my fault, and I'm really sorry.
~ Ryan Dahl onnode_modules.
JavaScript was a mistake.
As somebody whose most familiar language is JavaScript, I agree.
Hotter(?) take: JavaScript is a mistake
Electron was a colossal mistake.
They misspelt 640K
Instructions unclear, the site is now best viewed with at 640K Transcendent HD.
Your 100 MB webäpp is still shit, in every metric.
around 75% of the project lifecycle, All developers should be moved to the min spec hardware they plan to support at launch.
I mean, even before everything went to hell and prices shot up, this is sane.
...and they should not have a GPU either, so they can feel the cost of full-motion parallax-scrolling fade-in backgrounds.
gotta get rid of their fast internet, too. 128kbps max (like 2 channel bonded isdn).
CSS files shouldn't be heavier than HTML, that's literally form over substance.
All JS code should require pressing a button to run.
Especially Atlassian.
I had a Jira Tab (one single Tab) once use 1.2GB.
Whenever I have to open a jira link, I click it and go for a coffee break
No monitors above 1920x1200 and they must code in bright sunlight at least 8 hours a day. I'm convinced some websites look like ass because the developers haven't look at anything below 4k. Maybe ever. Some may not have seen sunlight in years. Not everything needs to be made for dark viewing with white text everywhere.
Oh god, yes, I wish they had to work in a bright environment. Every other website (and even some desktop applications) feel like it was coded by someone who hasn't left their basement since Obama was still in office.
I mean, seriously, how can people unironically say stuff like 'black text on a white background hurts my eyes'? Turn on the fricking lights damn it. Staying in badly lit environments is bad for your eyesight anyway.
Also, while we're at it, I am also not a fan of grey text on a grey background. Okay, rant over.
4k fullscreen uncompressed picture is a bit under 24MB. (3840*2160/1024/1024*3 = 23.73)
Which is why you show a lower-res preview as default. Don't want to wait a fucking minute to decide if i like your picture or not.
Which reminds me, Chrome/ium/Firefox's dev tools have a bandwith limiting feature. A lot of so-called web developers don't know that.
Really? I did a little web dev as a side role when I worked in a small shop and even I knew about those tools.
Reducing load times under highly throttled speeds was like crack to me.
Yes entire page load was 120kB. But what about 76kB? 2 hours well spent damn it!!
The one thing that the Fediverse wanted to destroy: not being able to cross post across social media software.
What people do: 📸
I fucking LOVE things breaking when the other node inevitably goes down, or the person deletes there post.
The URL to the originating instance is right there.
Edit: the microblogging quote post standard is just a URL as well.
LOL, just turning on Windows will blow that up. Then, opening Chrome... LMAO. Can you even run on 4GB of RAM anymore? Like, Raspberry Pis have over 4GB now.
OS developers should be banned from having more than 2GiB of RAM too.
You absolutely can. I have Linux with Hyprland and it is less than 2gb doing nothing. You can probably run ARM boards and do the same. I think with browser it is still less than 4Gb. Your system just needs to be free of corporate garbage.
Another idea: ban all public-userspace devs from have more than 2GB ram on their dev systems.
If it's going on the market for joe-schmoe, ya gotta make it work on a complete shitbox before shipping.
ban my boss from forcing me to include gigabytes worth of javascript.
making me do it with a crappy computer is only going to make me suffer while trying to do it.
If it makes you feel better, Chrome has a limit of 4GB.
(Source: I work on a very large enterprise webapp and we have OOMed many times)