Computers are pretty great
Also, all the cool kids have one of these, so I built my own hot-take blog.
Whoever first thought that shipping 4MB of JS was a good idea was trying something new and seeing where it went.
The people who still think it’s OK are just assholes.
By the way I use the term “engineer” and “developer” interchangeably because it doesn’t matter.
This project has a few ground rules to make it interesting:
- The website is static for maximum performance
- I try at least one tool or technique I don’t know yet
- No Javascript is run on the client