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While working for a CDN I learned that every press of the Windows 10 Start button involved at least one call to at least one remote hostname to fetch data about the local weather to be shown in the Start menu. I presume machines were caching the response for a while, but realizing that this host was getting poked (and who knows how many others) every time someone clicked that button continues to blow my mind.
PS: 🤘
that's fake... right? Please?
Clearly a guy pretending to be the developer 🤣
Yeah but that applies to most of MS's engineering staff.
Lol 😂 you cracked me up
TL;DR: Microsoft devs are mac users.
Ironically Apple would never allow a first party app to be anything other than Swift. No React allowed.
Some parts of Music preferences are in fact, react: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/inspecting-web-views-in-macos/
Somewhat surprising, they've managed to keep everything consistent and performant enough that I couldn't even tell.
They added a "feature" where to improve the loading time of the start menu (which is already a fucked up thing to need to say) they briefly lift power limits from the cpu when you press start
Lmaoooooo. What if people started pressing start to fix their game fps because that?
The turbo button is back. Awwww yeah!
Great ragebait! for a second I almost thought this was real
I'm a React developer too and I went tf off on the project manager who suggested we replace the company's perfectly fine Wordpress homepage with a self-built page running on React. Actually, never ever use React for anything that matters. It's exclusively suited for making janky browser games and B2B applications.
We had a Svelte application. We chose svelte because it's simpler than React is, and it's much faster. However further down the line a consultant said to the CTO that we should move to React. I said React is more complicated and has more edge cases, and its slower, but the consultant said more people know react and it has a bigger community, so we switched to React. This was fairly early in the project. React has sooo many edge cases. It's not made with async in mind, if you forget to add a [] to a useEffect it just breaks your application completely instead of doing the more sensible thing, it says "don't use useEffect" but there's so many "except when" that you end up using it everywhere regardless. Later on the CTO got all in on Claude Code, so we spent the easter holidays rewriting the app in Svelte. Except a few bugs it was feature complete by that week and in production a few days later.
It's much, MUCH faster now, and the code is much simpler. We lost absolutely nothing by moving back to Svelte but gained a lot.
Edit: not that using either of these is sane thing to do in the start menu. The start menu should not be a web application.
What's a B2B application? Backend To Backend?
Business to Business
Bozo 2 Bozo
Yeah, they said that.
Insert some linux joke about CPU efficiency.
Is this for real? The guy that coded windows start menu doesn't consider performance to be relevant to good software?
Also what is react native? Is it the js library adapted to the windows desktop API?
The twitter thread is a fabrication.
The react native shit? all true. True enough that MS made an announcement talking about how they had removed it even. https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/21/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-start-menu-performance-boost-shift-to-winui-from-web-based-components/
As far as I can tell, react native is a way to make easy cross-compatible gui components in javascript. One of the more stupid things ms has done lately.
Cross compatibility betong one of the things that's not very necessary in an OS.
Yeah, it's so bad because it's so easy to do right.
Its only the recommended section thats written in react.
We got plenty of real things to clown on Microsoft with. We dont need to make shit up. This is just rage bait.
Ah gotcha. So it's not strictly correct to call the whole start menu a react application, just a part of it that always loads when you press the start button.
I'm all for being correct, but MS absolutely deserves being clowned on for this.
I try not to let such considerations get in the way of posting excellent ragebait.
That's actually worse. You do get how that's actually worse, right?
Yes, a hodgepodge of shit is of course worse. But fucken say that then. Dont say, "its literally a react native application! Thats why its so bad!" when that is not true and sounds ignorant.
J'en reviens pas que c'est un québécois qui a implémenté le menu démarrer de Windows 11.
J'haïs le nouveau menu.
Si j'le voué m'en va y donner un char de marde.
Omelette du frommage
If I could go back in time but only have the power to change something really inconsequential, I'd go to whenever this episode of Dexter's Laboratory was written and force the writers to correct it to "omelette au fromage".
This is absolutely my dumbest pet peeve. Instead of cheese omelet, "omelette du fromage" reads as "omelet from cheese".
I think it's funny, and probably the intended joke, that he only knows one word and it's incorrect.
I for one appreciate people maintaining their unique language and culture.
J’haïs
Now I want Québécois to be the only French language option in Windows 11.
un char de marde
Is that 8 bits of marde?
That doesn’t sound like a lot of marde, but probably more marde than I would like to receive on any given day.
"Un char" in Canadian French means "une voiture" (a car).
