{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

Here's how deep I had to go into the DOM tree to inspect text that I had typed into a text box on Twitter

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@darius got nearly the same tree in other same fantastic websites as well. Just wondering whether it is the behavior of modern web applications or just design problems of twitter?

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Ed Summers

@darius holy divs there Elon

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eli_oat

@darius @milofultz I once heard someone say you can estimate the size of an orgs engineering team by the number of divs a core feature is rapped in. They said it as a snide comment, but I honestly think there’s something to it.

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Pauxlll Kruczynski

@darius when VCs get involved in buildings of circles of hell...

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amy (she/her)

@darius remember when you could "view source" a site and actually learn something? this is ridiculous.

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Tagomago

@darius Insane. This kind of industrial bloat-web development deserves a big painful end.

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Ignis Incendio (he/it)

@darius No wonder the Twitter web UI is so slow.

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slut respecter

@darius nobody can convince me that this isn't deliberate obfuscation

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colin mitchell

@darius flex flex flex flex flex flex flex flex flex flex flex

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Григорий Клюшников

But at least the code their developers see is sure beautiful? It's all that matters in modern software development, right?

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Andrew

@darius why the hell are they all named like that.

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JP

@darius any idea why those class names are so weird? clearly generated but what is it accomplishing? i know in some cases it's ad blocker evasion but that can't be the only reason can it?

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Leonard Ritter

@darius it's divs all the way down

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