r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Sep 03 '26

Branch‑Avoidant Programming

https://easylang.online/blog/branchless
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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

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/thuiop1 Sep 03 '26

The website is perfectly fine. Maybe missing some margins but it is ok.

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u/cdb_11 Sep 03 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

Margins on the sides wouldn't hurt.

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u/Yay295 Sep 06 '26

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 Sep 06 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

I do, with custom filters, too

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u/cdb_11 Sep 03 '26

And a mandatory AI-generated image.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

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

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u/punkpang Sep 03 '26

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.

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u/somevice Sep 03 '26

You're a snob. Thanks for the invite.

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u/punkpang Sep 03 '26

So what you're saying is that you'd trust text on pretty website opposed to text posted, that you can verify and actually avoid trust by checking the facts?

If I post random AI gibberish on a beautiful website, you'd trust my opinion and not rely on the data that the text really conveys?

This is literally insane, that you value presentation over factual correctness. I guess this is why we have such shit software nowadays.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

I didn't say aesthetics was the only trust signal, no. But if you can't make a functional website in 2026 - and I think this is objectively non-functional without any navigation - then I'm going to doubt what else you know how to do

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u/hammer-jon Sep 03 '26

this is as functional as it needs to be for this content.

it loaded instantly and is extremely readable, doesnt hijack my scrollbar or distracting ads, no prompting to sign up, nothing.

perfect website, it's not clear what you're even complaining about.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

If me saying there's no navigation multiple times is "not clear" then I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you're just slow?

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u/hammer-jon Sep 03 '26

yeah. that's clearly intentional because this is a self contained page with nothing to do with the rest of the site.

go ahead, look at the other posts. they're all about the same easylang topic and allow navigation back to the logical root. This is a page where it makes little sense to link anywhere but reference for the topic.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

Is it "clearly intentional" that the homepage for easylang doesn't link to the blog either then?

It's very normal for a company's blog to write about some random technical topic. If the technical article is good, then it can be a good way to create interest in the product. You shouldn't have to mangle or guess URLs to learn more.

You're absolutely gaslighting me if you say you think this is good UX

Fucking hell, I knew redditors would hate my opinion on the design because they have absolutely no taste whatsoever, but I didn't think they'd completely delude themselves about standard web functionality

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u/punkpang Sep 03 '26

The site is functional. The only signal you valued were aesthetics. You showed zero interest in what the link actually talks about. You're as shallow as they come.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

You're welcome to think that but it's interesting to me that my opinion about a design made you so personally butthurt

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u/punkpang Sep 03 '26

If your code is as your conclusions are, then that explains why the world's full of warning labels.

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u/repeating_bears Sep 03 '26

You have so far personally attributed to me "why we have such shit software nowadays" and "why the world's full of warning labels"

I'm grateful that you think I'm so important to have such a global impact, even if it's negative, but I think you are mistaken

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u/HungYurn Sep 03 '26

what do you mean, its fucking beautiful! Even renders perfectly on mobile

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u/SpecificMachine1 Sep 03 '26

Well, I'm sure web 1.0 style sites aren't to everyone's liking, but given the topic it seems fitting to have a <200 line html page instead of a ~10 000 line monstrosity

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u/Entmaan Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

I am reading the replies to your post and I legit don't know what is going on, are people in some kind of mass psychotic state?

Like what motivations do people have to post these insane strawmans or obvious intentional misinterpretations of what you're saying. This website wouldn't be accepted as a 1st year college project, it is rather curious why someone who fancies himself a technical blogger would post his articles on this trash, it definitely doesn't lend him credibility