Alex Russell on Nostr: #perfnow slides will be up at some point, but the TL;DR is toot-sized: the web is ...
#perfnow slides will be up at some point, but the TL;DR is toot-sized: the web is losing, in part because the frontend discourse has been captured by charlatans and fabulists. It's hurting users, and drawing attention away from urgent problems that are keeping the web from competing.
The #webperf community is a rare island of sanity where still evidence beats bluster. We owe it to our future selves to help clients reject the lemons the JS-industrial-complex keeps trying to pass off as gems.
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