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kotska
2y

I have been spending all day optimizing a wordpess site for pagespeed, looking into how can I optimize the custom scripts which block rendering and I was learning some new things, it was hard but I was making progress. Then comes the senior engineer who installs a plugin and pagespeed went from 60 to 90 on mobile, I was pretty shocked. Then it hit me. IT DELAYS THE LOADING OF EVERY SCRIPT AND IMAGE UNTIL USER INPUT TRICKING THE SCORING SYSTEM. U GET A WHITE SCREEN IF YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING. I told him it's not really faster this way, and he agreed it is not "ethical" but the score is good.
Am I still an idiot naive kid? There is a line between scamming people and quality work, but it keeps getting more blurry.

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  • 3
    2y
    He's basically the neural network you are trying to train in that he optimizes for the wrong thing wwwww
  • 0
    2y
    Isn't half the problem images? 80% quality jpgs for the win.
  • 1
    2y
    @Demolishun Yes that's a given, but when you have a some scroll jacking animations as a hero(don't ask), and some map with interactivity that loads more images, built locally, frankensteined together with wordpress(really just dont) it can be optimized a bit.
  • 4
    2y
    that's just terrible. that's not "making anything better", but "playing the system". that's harmful to everyone involved in the long run, and anti-user in the short run.

    the senior engineer should think about their lifes, their wrong choices, and go work in marketing instead.
  • 2
    2y
    Not long ago… ok maybe some time ago 🦕 . I ranted here about something similar and I got an answer something in the terms of “Get paid, go home, forget”.

    I am tired of people thinking this jungo bungo medieval 🏰 way and trying to justify it and pass it as the norm.

    I don’t fully support Torvalds way of dealing with people.

    But you know, FUCK NVIDIA.
    Fuck Italian jungo bango pasta master devs.

    (does not include juniors, we protec 🛡️ those and take bullets for them)

    The love for the craft is supposed to be the problem solving orgasm you get after the solution not shadowing a building that is about to get collapsed.
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