https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Vendor’s random walk through frontend choices may eventually lead them to be right twice a day, but that’s not a reason to keep following their lead. No, we need to move our attention back to the folks that have been right all along. The people who never gave up on semantic markup, CSS, and progressive enhancement for most sites. The people who, when slinging JS, have treated it as special occasion food. The tools and communities whose culture puts the user ahead of the developer and hold evidence of doing better for users in the highest regard.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep, here’s another good one from the same guy: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

To serve users at the 75th percentile (P75) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year’s budgets, thanks to device and network improvements. Meanwhile, sites continue to send more script than is reasonable for 80+% of the world’s users, widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. This is an ethical crisis for frontend.

@prologic@twtxt.net compared to a lot of modern sites that seems pretty darn slim haha. Most of the size seems to be the avatar(s) anyway.