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My personal blog, built with Hugo!

add minimalism tag
Marco Andronaco andronacomarco@gmail.com
Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:32:23 +0100
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title: "My opinion on FOMO" date: 2022-03-06T11:21:41Z draft: false -tags: [advice] +tags: [advice,minimalism] --- ## What are you even talking about
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title: "Modern Web Bloat" date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z draft: false -tags: [foss] +tags: [foss,minimalism] --- This is it. My first blog post; I suppose this officially makes be a boomer.

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* etc... I guess people just find it more comfortable if they can do everything with a single program, and they're not to blame for that. This IS the easiest approach for unexperienced people: just have a program that does everything, instead of having to learn how to use a bunch of different software. + This plethora of uses is possible today because of the existence of various libraries and frameworks that simplify JavaScript and CSS and make them easier to develop complicated websites with. This is good for basic web users who just want functional websites, and great for developers since they can easily code advanced functions inside the browser, which makes them work in every OS. + Sadly, this brings us to the problem: any modern website has become a burden for any browser to load, since our browser needs to download and parse through each library and often fill the page content as you scroll through. In his video, Luke Smith found that a simple Chicken Parmesan recipe would take up to 5-10 megabytes, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it actually is. + It's easier to understand it if you think about it with video-games; any game on 16-bit consoles and earlier, including full-fledged 30+ hour adventures like Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, weighs less than one single recipe page (as stated [here](https://blogs.umass.edu/Techbytes/2014/02/10/history-of-gaming-storage/#attachment_2827)). ## The solution Well, I don't think this "problem" is getting solved soon, as new frameworks for web development are constantly being introduced. Sadly, it's a one-way train, but if you're a web-dev you could actually make a difference yourself! + I mean, this can not apply to all websites. Some of them just NEED to be as responsive and interactive as they are; most of them actually just became bloated at a certain time period (probably mid-2000s) when having a flashy website was cool and different from what everyone else had. -Nowadays you can be different than other websites by using plain HTML and CSS for your website: this ensures your pages will load instantly and be compatible even with the oldest of browsers! +Nowadays you can make a difference by using plain HTML and CSS for your website: this ensures your pages will load instantly and be compatible even with the oldest of browsers! If you like this philosophy, you can check out other projects that aim for a simpler and faster web, like these ones: * [gemini://](//gemini.circumlunar.space/): a new, purposefully limited, internet protocol;