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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

According to HTTP Archive, Next.js sites see the **worst** Core Web Vitals performance when compared to other popular frameworks

httparchive.org/reports/tech...

Screenshot from https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/tech?tech=ALL,Next.js,Ruby+on+Rails,Astro,SvelteKit,Svelte,React,VitePress&geo=ALL&rank=ALL&page=1

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · 17h

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If you are there might as well visit!

@cityjsconf.bsky.social

#reactathens #microfrontends | CityJS Conferences

We are putting one more #ReactAthens event, sponsored by Epignosis learning technologies and supported by kariera.gr At this event we got George Iliadis speaking about the various flavours of #micro...

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · 7d

I share the sentiment, it has its place as a tool. AI sucked the joy out of development. It actually made it miserable for me to work with people that use it, because they rely so much on it. To the point that they wont write a simple funtion, when we are debugging.

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Sep 16

Congratz!

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Aug 5

extend that to South EU as well.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week I praised EU regulation for their consumer protection laws.

This week I am critising it for the idiocy that is tariffs. How on earth does von der leyen and her group decide about trade tariffs that affect ALL european countries in a single meeting.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jul 25

Since when it is reasonable to provide a only a single year of warrantly for an item that costs 2k euros?

In the majority of eastern europe that is 2.5 times the median salary. And on the undeveloped world, that might be years of earnings.

Companies doing this garbage should be ashamed.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today my mac broke,99% it is a hardware issue related to a screen cable.

I bought this machine in April last year. By apple's standard it is out of warrantly (1 year). But thanks to EU laws that require companies to provide warrantly for 2 years min I wont pay a thing.

Thank god for EU regulation

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today my mac broke,99% it is a hardware issue related to a screen cable.

I bought this machine in April last year. By apple's standard it is out of warrantly (1 year). But thanks to EU laws that require companies to provide warrantly for 2 years min I wont pay a thing.

Thank god for EU regulation

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jul 9

@astro.build is there a way to donate, and make sure you folks never end up needing to get bought by vercel?

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is actually great!

x.com/mjackson/sta...

MJ on X: "I’m growing increasingly disillusioned with React hooks. Everything about them just seems so unnecessarily complex. It’s just so funny because for a while there I thought they were great. Stockholm syndrome." / X

I’m growing increasingly disillusioned with React hooks. Everything about them just seems so unnecessarily complex. It’s just so funny because for a while there I thought they were great. Stockholm syndrome.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jun 19

:( :(

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Jun 19

Do you have any dates planned in the summer in South Europe?

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · May 28

Pair programming session, the other dev had copilot. I spend 2 hours on what should be 20 mins. Because the other dev kept giving prompts/ writting a few words and expected the AI to generate the function.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · May 23

Stay away from developers that want to standardise their wrappers around web standards.

Someone I know spend 3 weeks to create a reusable form component around a react library written to wrap forms.

All this because they wanted to pretend that html does not exist.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · May 16

Agreed, but honestly it is fine, you are not telling lies.. just providing stats... Also dev managers and CTO's is your target audience not devs.

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · May 16

I generally find that it is easier to get people off the react train first rather than hopping in another one.

Just show them the framework benchmarks, and actual SEO and real user data. 9/10 devs I have encountered do not understand how rendering and rerendering works.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · May 1

This is HUGE: Apple can no longer charge the "Apple Tax" on web transactions.

Epic fought up against this anticompetitive practice; took Apple to court and scored a clear and decisive victory.

Apple cannot collect a 27% tax on web purchases. Not for Epic, not for others.

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Apr 28

I mean, how is lobbying not illegal...

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 27

only the ruby devs looked happy and getting shit done in the same time :/

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is the JS ecosystem not just Angular.
You would 100% have this issues with everything else.

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 22

Somehow, in 2025 software has gotten so shitty, that we are convinced that the only way to solve the issue is to throw more processing power at it.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 22

Colleague: "I need 32Gb Ram minimum cause when I run my IDEs I run out of memory, Thus i will buy the new X laptop and pay 3k just 2 years after buying my last one."

Me: "Have you considered changing your IDEs, maybe to something more lightweight?"

Colleague: "Lol, no I am not an idiot"

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George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 15

Bought a new keyboard, since my last one died.

Got one of those multi led gamer ones. Can someone explain to me why do I need to login online to get access to the application that controls the light mode??

This is insanity.

George Iliadis @geoili.bsky.social · Mar 12

My github is stagnatic, I ll be sure to take steps to adjust this.