big performance wins achieved by removing react from websites that didn’t need react in the first place

okay i mulled over this idea in my head for a month and then just sat down and wrote this in one pass without switching tabs so here it is, raw and extra spicy:

“Second guessing the modern web” macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fat…

it’s a good thing that we’ve all been using git’s decentralized fundamentals to avoid a dependency on one corporation amirite

scroll-driven design is slowly revealing its true nature as powerpoint for the web