HOT TAKE

FRONT END DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM USING THEIR HARDWARE FOR A MONTH EACH YEAR AND INSTEAD GIVEN A LOW END 10 YEARS OLD NETBOOK

@halva specially designers need to stop using Apple hardware and see what their design really look like to most people.

@halva this should also apply to game developers

@halva no whyyyyyyyyyyy

@halva also, their internet access needs to be capped speed-wise and maybe even data-wise for that same time period.

@halva I am a professional software developer and I work on a Thinkpad released in 2008.

@halva I do think that they need to be reigned in but I think that limiting things to the power of a netbook is a little too far in the other direction lol

@halva A month is not enough...

@halva I have a 12 years old notebook, but is is high end unfortunately.

@halva 10 year old netbook? cmon, do better. i use a 15 year old laptop most days (although its higher end than “netbook”). at least force frontend devs to make software that supports opengl version “fucking ancient lol only vlc runs on this”

@halva Bold of you to assume I’m not already running a potato

@halva 😂

@halva Even more so, leadership should have to deal with a low end 10yo netbook for at least three months every year.

@halva caps

@halva
But I do stop using my personal machine to use the one the company gave me (aka, passed on to me when someone else left eight years ago) every time I go into the office to work. Honest!

@halva already using a 10 year old netbook but developing extremely bloated frontends anyways mwahahaha /s

@halva its always backend devs who need to load docker images and multi-gig database backups that are in the "alleged computer" territory :P

@halva I love this. I actually keep around a dual core Celeron laptop around for this purpose. If my web app is too painfully slow on that, I've got work to do

@halva reminds me of a 10 year old laptop review that was using up to date windows 11, and windows + edge itself crashed and froze multiple times but ran high end benchmarks without freezing or crashing (albeit at the worst score imaginable.)

@halva as a front end developer, i 100% agree

@halva Hotter take -- they should do this while using cellphone-tethered internet while riding the subway of the closest major city that has one.

@halva as someone who has to do lots of front end code: YES, PLEASE!

it's ridiculous how we waste ressources nowadays

@yakkoj yes

3G tethering, 5 gigabyte cap

anything more you pay out of your pocket

@yakkoj @halva unless it's been removed, Chrome had devtools options where you could tell it to mimic various device screen sizes and internet speeds, see if you can get a good "time to first render" with 3G or 56k modem speeds :)

@halva frontend programmers should get 10 year old laptops, and city planners should not be allowed to drive

@maryjane @halva
A different piece of junk every month.

@halva thanks to Thinkpad from 2013. It actually forces to think about clean code more as hot reloading is a pain in ass. Powerful hardware just gives an easier reward path in which hot reloading runs fast. And this mostly makes a need to write efficient and understandable code as obsolete thing, unfortunately.