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Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]

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  • Presented by Maciej Ceglowski, creator of Pinboard
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Maciej Ceglowski delivers a humorous and critical keynote on the growing size of web pages and the unnecessary bloat in modern web development.

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What people say. Highly recommended by web developers as a classic, entertaining critique of modern web bloat and the decline of lightweight page design.

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The Website Obesity Crisis 00:53:19 by **Maciej Ceglowski** (2015)

jcynixon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The mythical “fast” web page”

Fat, slow loading, unresponsive web pages? Maybe it's time again to remember Maciej Ceglowski's "Web Directions 2015 Keynote": The Website Obesity Crisis link to this video

grishkaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Faster web fonts”

Yeah I mean > This is a good base because it lets website visitors start reading your content right away They're already reading the content. The one job your website had has already been accomplished without the custom font. As this guy1 said, you first serve what's essential for your website's functionality, and then you stop. 1 link to this video

renegat0x0on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power”

…oducent for the product to be more complicated and fragile. Now you cannot have offline software. There needs to be telemetry. Therefore there need to be internet logins. Therefore hackers are a higher threat. Why does my calculator on Xiaomi phone need permissions for gathering private data? I know maybe to select some units, but comes on! link link to this video link…

renegat0x0on Hacker News • Mentions

On “'Your Frustration Is the Product'”

Reminds me of "Website obesity crisis" - link to this video - link Some say that you should not use ad blocker, because that kills ad revenue, but I did not forced anybody to rely with their lives on ad revenue. Many of things were 'free' because we were all just using ad blocks, and then it all became commodified, simplified, so simpletons without ad blocks became a thing. Now they shame people for using ad blocks, even though it stops spreading malware and viruses. I plan to use ad block, and use as many extensions that protect me. If there is some form of goods, be it streaming movies, audio, books I will happily pay for it. I will not accept a web with ads. I prefer touch grass. There is a clear…