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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:35:49 JST Aral Balkan

   Oh, by the way, since the optimisations I made on the bundle size, it now takes ~3.61 seconds to download and install Kitten on my machine and ~1 second to update it (the initial install takes longer as Kitten downloads its own Node.js runtime and that takes the bulk of the time).

   Every second you don’t spend waiting for something is a second you can spend doing something else 🤓

   :kitten: 💕

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #server #framework #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #htmx

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:40:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     (And remember, Kitten is a server. So you don’t have to download and install a framework every time you start a project ­– no npx this or that or anything. Just start writing your code and run `kitten`.)

     https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

     #Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #server #framework #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #htmx #WebSockets #p2p

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 04:14:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     PS. In case you wonder why I care about a few seconds of difference…

     http://www.breakingthin.gs/this-is-all-there-is.html

     #thisIsAllThereIs #design #respect

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     Sam Thurston :verified: (samthurston@awscommunity.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 07:28:09 JST Sam Thurston :verified:

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     @aral that's a very thoughtful piece. I used to work on software used by long haul truckers. Coworkers would often dismiss my ui/usability concerns as "minor annoyances." I would frequently think about how the "minor annoyances" of our app would make a difficult day worse, which could cause rage or exhaustion, which could cause road safety issues. Or even a delay, meaning a driver might not make it home to their kid's soccer game.

     It's wild when you start to think of users as human beings.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 07:28:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sam Thurston :verified:

     @samthurston 💕

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     Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 20:03:50 JST Ed Davies

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     @aral Nice. Reminds me of a colleague who, whenever there was an unnecessary software frustration, would shake his head and mutter “what a senseless waste of life”.