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sb arms & legs

Thinking about the wasteful nature of #LLMs got me thinking about waste in my own development. While it can be convenient to use the large, enterprise-grade frameworks to deliver a minimalist website in 2025 - it's absurd.

Do I really need #laravel with #react, #jquery, #tailwind, #webFonts, #postgres to host some simple #markdown?

Do I need to re-render a bunch of static content at every hit? Does every simple article require 64 connections to the server to display?

I think not.

I want my material to be available to anyone who wants it - regardless of the device they are using or the robustness of their connection.

I want to respect users who disable #javascript for their personal protection.

I want to respect #ScreenReaders and users of assistive technology, without unnecessary complexity.

Everything we need is built into the HTML and CSS specs.

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Typographica

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202

As always, a fascinating report by @bram and Charles! The most interesting bits for me:

– Significant increase in exclusive self-hosting (desktop: from 22% in 2022 to 28%; mobile: from 28% in 2022 to 34%)

– @marksimonson’s Proxima Nova is used on 1% of websites. As the only commercial, non-icon font in the top 20, this level of popularity is extremely impressive.

#Webfonts #Fonts #Typography #Webdev
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almanac.httparchive.orgFonts | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP ArchiveFonts chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering where fonts are loaded from, font formats, font loading performance, variable fonts, and color fonts.
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Simon Brooke

@sarahjamielewis This raises the whole issue of #WebFonts and #JavaScript repositories.

Google (et al) don't host these things out of charity. When you, a user, request a document from me, a publisher, you expect an exchange of data between your machine and mine. But if I've embedded into that document requests for web fonts or JS libraries from some information-scraper's repository, the scraper is getting information the user doesn't expect and hasn't consented.

So don't do this.
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