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davidgudaon CSS-Native Parallax Effect

Slightly disorienting but mostly just gimmicky. Luckily the "scroll down and more stuff than just scroll i going on" trend has mostly faded.

davidgudaon Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

"one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps" Not perhaps 100% but sure, in the modern age of web apps for everything I miss having proper desktop apps.

Even more so, programming web apps is nowhere near as convenient as developing desktop apps in late 90's with tools like Delphi.

davidgudaon Want to call C from Python? Use D

You'r being sarcastic but having convenient interop between languages is not a small thing.