You can tell that a lot of the frontend community misses Flash and Shockwave and Applets and Silverlight because they just can't help re-creating them in JS.
What else could possibly explain needing to load megabytes of code just to show a loading spinner, then a different loading spinner, then a third loading screen?
https://infrequently.org/2024/08/object-lesson/
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2024-08-18 16:18:47
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