<story><title>The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)</title><url>https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beej71</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just web pages. It&amp;#x27;s easier to build bloated things in less time than non-bloated things. For-profit companies (rightly, I&amp;#x27;d argue) don&amp;#x27;t value the Craft as much as the Bottom Line.&lt;p&gt;My home page, though admitted sparse and functional, is a total 39 KB download, including 9 link icons and a blurred full background image. (Turns out blurring the image allows you some incredible levels of JPEG compression with few artifacts.) I worked a bit to get it there. And that&amp;#x27;s nothing compared with what some demoscene folks can do. :)&lt;p&gt;The other day in one of my &amp;quot;get off my lawn&amp;quot; moments, I declared to the Rails app I was messing with that, &amp;quot;Every web framework sucks!&amp;quot; And then quickly amended the sentiment to include every test framework and build framework, for good measure.&lt;p&gt;I mean, they have their place for rapid development, of course. But the accompanying bloat and dependency surface hurts my soul.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)</title><url>https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The website obesity crisis (2015)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27355556&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27355556&lt;/a&gt; - June 2021 (89 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22283344&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22283344&lt;/a&gt; - Feb 2020 (22 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17943754&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17943754&lt;/a&gt; - Sept 2018 (30 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14088092&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14088092&lt;/a&gt; - April 2017 (83 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11659026&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11659026&lt;/a&gt; - May 2016 (90 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Website Obesity Crisis&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=10820445&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=10820445&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2016 (367 comments)</text></comment>