Alex Russell on Nostr: Going against the grain reliably blows up your spot because HTML and CSS are ...
Going against the grain reliably blows up your spot because HTML and CSS are shockingly efficient UI compression syntaxes. You can't beat 'em, byte-for-byte, and ~30 years of engineering have gone into optimising them for the *specific* environment they thrive in: loading sites the first time, through a straw, on CPU-starved devices.
Every time it has looked like the environment would favour less efficient approaches, the world has changed in ways that disappoint post-scarcity naïveté.
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