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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Working on a blog post covering some of the most heartbreaking performance disasters I'm seeing and the cultural forces that broke the web with JS.
Seeing 10s of megabytes of critical-path JS, served with no compression or caching still shocks, but no longer surprises.
Frontend is now failing in spectacularly performative ways. We stopped teaching the basics, and now all of society is paying the price.