Alex RussellJul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

Show threadAllan Chow
@slightlyoff this makes me think of when @foone was just finding all sorts of random crap in video game discs
Jul 8, 2023 at 1:36pmWeb