Mastodawn

Great post about what's wrong with today's commercial web. It reminds me of Aesop's goose that laid golden eggs and will end the same way - dead, killed by greed.

"I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones."

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

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August B

@yeswap
I was just talking yesterday about how the lack of engineering resources for maintenance and pressure to add new features makes formerly good products worse: less secure, slower, broken and harder to use.

Yet squeezing every bit of money out of a successful product until it's ruined is the only way to satisfy VC. The drive for infinite wealth and scale are destroying technology (and long ago destroyed the NYT).