Brutkey

Sean Coates
@sean@scoat.es

I’ve been working away from my desk a bunch this past month. Looks like I’ve used over 100GB of mobile data.

Sometimes that connection is great. Sometimes it’s a bit flaky.

Universally, though, web sites work much better when they don’t try to get fancy with how the UI loads.

A winning strategy here is simplicity. HTML + CSS; minimal JS.

It’s so frustrating for a GitHub issue page to stall out trying to backfill content. Just give me the rest of the HTML, not your cutesy page building jank.

Sean Coates
@sean@scoat.es

This single GH issue page is currently at 88 resources (2.45MB/579KB transferred), and most of the “vendors” and “react” requests have timed out after 3 minutes.

I see the issue title and description, but I can’t work on it because someone made the comment/actions form into a broken asynchronous mess.

I seriously used to point people at GitHub as “here’s someone who’s actually doing progressive enhancement well, and it’s not just super simple stuff”. Not anymore. )-: React ruined GitHub.