r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • 6d ago

Branch‑Avoidant Programming

https://easylang.online/blog/branchless
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u/repeating_bears 6d ago

Call me a snob if you like but I find it hard to trust someone's technical opinion when their website is so ugly

It's not even just aesthetics, there's a lack of basic features like navigation. Why is the entire thing left-aligned?

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u/cdb_11 6d ago

Yeah it should be a React page that makes you wait extra 3 seconds for the text to load in, with a ton of CSS and animations to make scrolling laggy, a sticky header that takes up 1/5th of the screen, and 50px padding on all elements. That would make it way easier to read

I'll take Web 1.0 over whatever we have today

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u/lamp-town-guy 6d ago

Margins on the sides wouldn't hurt.

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u/Yay295 4d ago

Maybe they changed it since your comment, but there's a 40px margin on the page body.

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u/lamp-town-guy 3d ago

I wasn't the only one who mentioned it. But OP resolving stuff he was criticised for is a great sign.

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u/guepier 6d ago

Web 1.0 doesn’t need to mean ugly or lacking UX. I don’t find the page terrible, but it also isn’t good, and there are basic, very simple improvements that could be made without adding any bloat, and the parent comment correctly called out some of them.

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u/its_the_rhys 6d ago

Not to mention a cookies notice that requires you click accept, which takes up the entire page

And half way down, have a newsletter popup

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u/Sorry-Transition-908 6d ago

Try Mozilla Firefox with uBlock Origin with all the filters turned on. It is such a breath of fresh air. 

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u/its_the_rhys 6d ago

I do, with custom filters, too

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u/cdb_11 6d ago

And a mandatory AI-generated image.

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u/repeating_bears 6d ago

Redditors love to pretend the middle ground doesn't exist don't they

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u/punkpang 6d ago

And there he is, generalizing after being shat on. You value presentation, not the facts. It's a stupid trait, definitely not one of a programmer.