Ethan MarcotteMar 28, 2024
You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware

Tom's Hardware
Show threadFoolishOwlMar 28, 2024

@beep I've been wrestling with the idea of setting up a personal website, mostly as an exercise in setting up a workflow with git and MkDocs and so on. And the more I'd try to imagine doing it, the less enthusiasm I have for it.

And right now I'm thinking, what's the point of trying to do it "professionally", when the "professional" model is just obviously extremely bad?

Show threadFoolishOwlMar 28, 2024
@beep In recent years I've been in a couple of socialist groups that over-rely on the same software tools and practices for supporting them that prevail in the tech industry. It's understandable, but I think it's important to understand that many of these tools and practices have assumptions about social structure built into them and it's important to question them.
Show threadEthan Marcotte

@foolishowl My goodness, I regret I have but one star to give this *extremely good* post 🏆💕

There are so many unacknowledged biases built into the tools we use. We have to acknowledge them if we ever want to stop disenfranchising people.

Mar 28, 2024 at 7:57pmWeb