I'm amazed just how many websites my '19 MacBook Air struggles with.
That's not an indictment of the Air, which I bought fully cognizant of the battery / heat / power tradeoffs. The Air is happy to run native design, etc. software. The only time I feel its performance limitations is when I'm browsing the goddamned web.
Running a Pro most of the time it's easy to overlook just what utter pigs many websites are today. But seriously, how the fuck is it ok for websites to grind popular consumer-grade computers to a halt?
Don't these engineers have any pride / skill / will to create good products? Performance is a feature kids.
I'll put money on that not being the engineers; I'm guessing that a dev merely added Google Tag Manager and someone in sales/digital marketing went to town on it.
Still, yep, I disabled uBlock Origin and that site is bad (on my work's 2015 Macbook Pro). I like disabling it on news sites every now and then to remind me just how utterly fucking unusable much of the Web is without it.
Based on the many discussions about web app performance on HN, it seems most web developers have neither pride in their work nor the will to create performant products.
Most of them must also lack the skill, given how difficult it is to squeeze performance out of a web app...
That's not an indictment of the Air, which I bought fully cognizant of the battery / heat / power tradeoffs. The Air is happy to run native design, etc. software. The only time I feel its performance limitations is when I'm browsing the goddamned web.
Running a Pro most of the time it's easy to overlook just what utter pigs many websites are today. But seriously, how the fuck is it ok for websites to grind popular consumer-grade computers to a halt?
Don't these engineers have any pride / skill / will to create good products? Performance is a feature kids.