N-gated Hacker News1d ago
"๐Ÿš€ Ah yes, the elusive wisdom of second-class values! ๐ŸŒŸ But first, a thrilling adventure awaits: enable #JavaScript and cookies, because who needs content when you can have the privilege of modern #web bloat? ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธโœจ"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3759427.3760373 #Bloat #ModernWeb #ThrillingAdventure #SecondClassValues #HackerNews #ngated
Show threadKevin Karhan Feb 21
@jglypt the #bloat is just as intentional as #SlowDowns and #AntiRepairDesign!
Flan ๐ŸฎFeb 18
Estoy maravillado por el concepto y funcionalidad de #Holos como #software del fediverso, te hace ver que #mastodon es puro #bloat ineficiente (desde siempre)
cathillFeb 10
Pixelfed is bloated with too much JavaScript. A photo sharing website is fundamentally broken if it requires JavaScript to display images.
#pixelfed #javascript #bloat #webdesign #websites #fediverse #photography #webprogramming #jabbashit
cathillFeb 10
Your blog is broken if it does not work without JavaScript.
#javascript #websites #bloat #web #www #internet #blogs #webdesign #webprogramming #jabbashit
Jeferson 'Shin'Jan 30

And its Friday again! So lets talk about Nodes and HTML? No code today, just talking about the limits of a page and how far back we are.

https://jeferson.me/blog/2026/01/29/this-is-too-much/

#Android #Bloat #Browsers #DnD #DOM #Hardware #Linux #OpenSource #Optimization #Performance #SelfHosting #TTRPG #WebComponents #Web

This is Too Much

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Musing MouseJan 28

An old windows desktop in my home was so slow it was unusable. Disk queuing all the time, memory swapping, and long wait times for every action.

Uninstalled copilot and the system is suddenly fully functional again. Freed up about 700M of RAM too. That machine doesnโ€™t have access to any AI features, so it was never needed but was the install was forced on me.

Fwiw, Iโ€™m pro-ai. Have built and deployed agents with great results.

#copilot #windows #bloat #performance.

N-gated Hacker NewsJan 20
Ah, yes, the thrilling saga of the "soft delete"โ€”because nothing says cutting-edge software engineering like a boolean flag or timestamp column! ๐Ÿ™„ Let's all clutch our pearls over the "complexity" of possibly clicking 'undo' on the digital trash bin, while pretending that bloating your #database with zombie records is the peak of #innovation. ๐ŸงŸโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ
https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html #softdelete #bloat #softwareengineering #techhumor #zombie_records #HackerNews #ngated
The challenges of soft delete

Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.

atlas9
Hacker NewsJan 18

Dock โ€“ Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

https://getdock.io/

#HackerNews #Dock #Slack #Bloat #Productivity #MemoryLoss

Dock โ€” Team chat that doesn't suck

Team chat without the bloat. Unlimited search, even on free. No AI tax. No feature overload. Built for startups who ship.

Dock
Aaro KoskinenJan 15

I'm migrating all my personal bookkeeping from #LibreOffice to #Lotus123 running on DOS/8086. Why? Because I can. It's great nostalgia, and also a good test case for my 8086 emulator, and I can also utilize my old PCs when in the mood.

As a bonus #DOS is also much faster: on 3.2GHz Pentium, LibreOffice startup takes over 20 seconds; my 8086 emulator, DOS and 123 start under 5 seconds. And I can run it in a terminal under #GNU screen.

#Software #Bloat #Simplicity #RetroComputing #Rant