Comment by NooneAtAll3
1 day ago
While I am totally on board with the idea... the article doesn't really say what to actually do to help?
"we at Handmade community" - and no link to that community anywhere
blog itself? 2 posts a year, and 2025 posts aren't even on the blog itself (just redirects)
Yes, tooling and toolmaking should be promoted - but promotion itself should also be accessible somehow?
Yeah it's a call to action to improve the tooling but it's not the first one I've seen. Tooling really is under focused in many areas.
It would be nice if every language and library had a great working repl and a Jupyter Lab kernel and good mdn-like documentation and w3schools-like tutorials.
This is probably the community he was talking about:
https://handmade.network/
Here's the manifesto: https://handmade.network/manifesto
My exact complaint. What is the "handmade" community? At first I thought he was talking about woodworking or knitting.
Also the reddit comparison is great, but I wish he would have talked about why the slop is there in the first place.
I'm pretty sure new reddit isn't optimized for speed, it's optimized for analytics and datamining.
I bet they use all those backend calls to get really granular session info. When something is super slow, it's not that it's unoptimized, but rather it's optimized for money over user experience.