@urlyman Approximately a 1:352 signal-to-crud ratio. Impressive.

@urlyman and exfiltrate gods-only-know what kinds of data to it's 878 partners

@urlyman asshettification

@urlyman Indeed.

Software and comms tech has a tendency to become more bloated to use the available bandwidth. It reminds me of the way new roads attract more traffic rather than easing congestion. Why can't we value elegance more? Depressing.

J'ai mieux compris quand je suis arrivé en Bosnie-Herzégovine, et que ça m'a coûté 60€ pour afficher l'adresse de mon Airbnb 😱 (à 7,5€/Mo)

@urlyman and involve 247 "partners" with "legitimate interest"

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And probably could also not imagine that the Internet is going to be kidnapped by morons like Musk, Zuckerberg and the "we are the good"-gang.

@urlyman are these assets or liabilities?

@urlyman Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

@urlyman I got my career start in the Web 1.0 server-side Java world but had the opportunity to do some work with a couple former DataPoint guys who invented ArcNet. We had some great conversations about how expectations about available resources and approaches to optimization have evolved over time. We all agreed that no web page should ever have more code embedded in it than the original UNIX source code base

But here we are...

@urlyman aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh(screaming into the void and bigtech's ear)

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*148 requests carried over UDP 🤦

To me this is one of the most bizarre parts!

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The Kessler Syndrome of networking.

@urlyman I feel this constantly. News sites where all I want is the text are covered in auto playing videos, irrelevant photos, structural elements that limit viewability, and of course ads.

I just want the text.

@urlyman No, definitely not. Not without DRM at least.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/on-eme-in-html5/

@urlyman there's me, earlier in the year writing the page for my weather station so it shows graphically the current status with real time live updates & got it all to be about 64k in total.

At some point I'll try to cut that by a few more k as there's some white space that's not needed.

The development page: https://weather.area51.dev/dash/home

@urlyman If a website doesn't work in Lynx over a 56K dialup connection, then it simply doesn't work.

#ProgressiveEnhancement or GTFO.

@urlyman When #webperf is not in consideration for sites, search engines should rank them even worse.

@urlyman "If present trends continue, there is the real chance that articles warning about page bloat could exceed 5 megabytes in size by 2020" https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

@urlyman I'm currently working on an internal application that uses graphql to transfer data to a react front-end. In general, our queries are >1.5x larger than the responses. We could optimize them, if we had time and they wouldn't change all the time. Maybe, one day...

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@urlyman okay,

a nice 15kb text article,

and a nice 1MB photo or two.

none of this JS waste and ad-gunk.

@urlyman I'm pretty shure it wasn't and I think that the #Enshittification of the #Web with #Trackers, #Ads, #Autoplay bs and the like should've been outlawed ages before...

@urlyman LOOKING AT YOU, ATLASSIAN!

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...and disable basic browser navigation with half-assed javascript intercepting the user's clicks, then blame the end user for being backwards when the end user complains about this.

@urlyman @jwildeboer while in the mean time consuming an inordinate amount of resources on your local computer…