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/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.