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10		<title>Modern web bloat</title>
11		<published>2021-04-09T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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15		<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;This is it. My first blog post; I guess I just became a boomer.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
16&lt;h2 id=&quot;inspiration&quot;&gt;Inspiration&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;
17&lt;p&gt;Some time ago I stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;odysee.com&#x2F;@Luke:7&#x2F;a-demonstration-of-modern-web-bloat:f&quot;&gt;this video&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;,
18where the popular Linux influencer &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lukesmith.xyz&quot;&gt;Luke Smith&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;
19talked about the effort of looking up a Chicken Parmesan recipe in 2021
20without having any adblock or privacy extensions enabled.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
21&lt;p&gt;I decided to build this website on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getzola.org&#x2F;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;zola&lt;&#x2F;code&gt;&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;,
22which is a modern engine for static sites! I was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lonami.dev&#x2F;&quot;&gt;lonami&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;
23and I actually forked &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LonamiWebs&#x2F;lonamiwebs.github.io&quot;&gt;his code&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;
24to make &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bi-Rabittoh&#x2F;birabittoh.github.io&quot;&gt;mine&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;. I
25think our websites are a good example of how clean and fast a webpage
26should be.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
27&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this looks like a first world problem and it probably is, but it&#x27;s
28not as subtle as you think. I&#x27;m actually convinced that the internet
29&lt;em&gt;could&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; actually benefit from this way of thinking, and that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m
30going to talk about in this first article. &lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
31&lt;h2 id=&quot;the-problem&quot;&gt;The problem&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;
32&lt;p&gt;In the early days of the internet, it was common for webpages to be
33written using only HTML, so we had very ugly but functional websites.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
34&lt;p&gt;As technology went on, sites needed to get more modern-looking and
35&lt;em&gt;interactive&lt;&#x2F;em&gt;; that&#x27;s why CSS and JavaScript were introduced into the
36mix, allowing for dynamic websites that could actually change based
37on user input.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
38&lt;p&gt;As of nowadays, a lot more stuff went into the mix, to the point where
39the browser is now the most common program we use in our OS: you can, in
40fact, use it for doing things that 15+ years ago required external
41programs, like:&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
42&lt;ul&gt;
43&lt;li&gt;playing music and video,&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
44&lt;li&gt;reading PDF files,&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
45&lt;li&gt;doing office work,&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
46&lt;li&gt;checking e-mail,&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
47&lt;li&gt;cloud storage,&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
48&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
49&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt;
50&lt;p&gt;I guess people just find it more comfortable if they can do everything
51with a single program, and they&#x27;re not to blame for that. This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;&#x2F;em&gt;
52the easiest approach for unexperienced people: just have a program that
53does everything, instead of having to learn how to use a bunch of
54different software.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
55&lt;p&gt;This plethora of uses is possible today because of the existence of
56various libraries and frameworks that simplify JavaScript and CSS and
57make them easier to develop complicated websites with.
58This is good for basic web users who just want functional websites, and
59great for developers since they can easily code complicated code inside
60the browser, making it the perfect cross-platform wet dream we all have.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
61&lt;p&gt;Sadly, this brings us to the problem: any modern website has become a
62burden for any browser to load, since our browser needs to download and
63parse through each library used and often fill the page contents as you
64scroll through.
65In his video, Luke Smith found that a simple Chicken Parmesan recipe
66would take up to 5-10 megabytes, which doesn&#x27;t sound like a lot, but it
67actually is.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
68&lt;p&gt;It&#x27;s easier to understand it if you think about it with video-games;
69any game on 16-bit&lt;sup class=&quot;footnote-reference&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#gaming-storage&quot;&gt;1&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;&lt;&#x2F;sup&gt; consoles and earlier, including
70full-fledged 30+ hour adventures like &lt;em&gt;Final Fantasy 6&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Chrono
71Trigger&lt;&#x2F;em&gt;, weighs less than that one single recipe webpage.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
72&lt;h2 id=&quot;the-solution&quot;&gt;The solution&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;
73&lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#x27;t think this &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; is getting solved soon, as new
74frameworks for web development are constantly being introduced. Sadly,
75it&#x27;s a one-way train, but if you&#x27;re a web-dev you could actually make a
76difference yourself!&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
77&lt;p&gt;I mean, this can not apply to all websites. Some of them just &lt;em&gt;NEED&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; to
78be as responsive and interactive as they are; most of them actually just
79became bloated at a certain time period (probably mid-2000s) when having
80a flashy website was cool and different from what everyone else had.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
81&lt;p&gt;Nowadays you can be different than other websites by using plain HTML
82and CSS for your website: this ensures your pages will load instantly
83and be compatible even with the oldest of browsers!&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
84&lt;p&gt;If you like this philosophy, you can check out other projects that aim
85for a simpler and faster web, like these:&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
86&lt;ul&gt;
87&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;based.cooking&#x2F;&quot;&gt;based.cooking&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;, a modern recipe website based
88on collaboration via GitHub;&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
89&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiby.me&#x2F;&quot;&gt;wiby.me&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;, a search engine that aims to only index
90classic style webpages.&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
91&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt;
92&lt;h2 id=&quot;footnotes&quot;&gt;Footnotes&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;
93&lt;div class=&quot;footnote-definition&quot; id=&quot;gaming-storage&quot;&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;footnote-definition-label&quot;&gt;1&lt;&#x2F;sup&gt;
94&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.umass.edu&#x2F;Techbytes&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;history-of-gaming-storage&#x2F;#attachment_2827&quot;&gt;this article&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
95&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
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