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That was written two and a half years ago now, and things have only continued to get worse since then.
I loathe the modern web. Speed is a secondary to "hey look what we're doing with our frameworks".
Modern front-end toolsets are finally starting to address this by using automated critical css, SSR + "hydrating" on load for interactive elements, webpack treeshaking + chunking of assets into tiny js/css files and only loading code based on what the page/routes asks for, PurgeCSS to get rid of unused css, cssnano/uglify/htmlmin/imagemin, etc. Webpack and these various popular tools has done a lot to make the web be…
Getting rid of unused css helps but the additional markup would make the page 4 or 5 times larger.
I loathe the modern web. Speed is a secondary to "hey look what we're doing with our frameworks".
Modern front-end toolsets are finally starting to address this by using automated critical css, SSR + "hydrating" on load for interactive elements, webpack treeshaking + chunking of assets into tiny js/css files and only loading code based on what the page/routes asks for, PurgeCSS to get rid of unused css, cssnano/uglify/htmlmin/imagemin, etc. Webpack and these various popular tools has done a lot to make the web be…
It's really a sad state of affairs when an industry with such a strong historical connection with publishing is now reasonably cited as an industry worse at publishing than most others.
Is PG even involved with HN anymore? He hasn't posted on his account in four years.
Though he's still a major shareholder of YC which owns it. He tweets quite a lot these days.
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Modern front-end toolsets are finally starting to address this by using automated critical css, SSR + "hydrating" on load for interactive elements, webpack treeshaking + chunking of assets into tiny js/css files and only loading code based on what the page/routes asks for, PurgeCSS to get rid of unused css, cssnano/uglify/htmlmin/imagemin, etc. Webpack and these various popular tools has done a lot to make the web be…
A modern css framework would increase the font size change the font type make the reply link a fat button. It would put a card around each parent reply thread. Getting rid of unused css helps but the additional markup would make the page 4 or 5 times larger.
I personally believe this is one of the couple reason why HN's demographic is significantly on the older side, in Tech terms. I personally wish HN attracted a bit of a fresher, younger crowd as the conversation here has become more stale over the last few years.
I loathe the modern web. Speed is a secondary to "hey look what we're doing with our frameworks".
I tend to think “but what about making the web enjoyable for the end user?”