Comment by defanor
2 years ago
As the article's author, I like to rant about articles ranting about bloat being bloated themselves, but here's an opportunity to rant about an article ranting about rants about bloat being bloated, being bloated itself! The page has 1 MB of rather unnecessary illustrations (many of which are just amusing pictures), which is larger than most of the books (as it compares other pages to books).
It is surprisingly common for content to contradict presentation in such articles. Well, it is mentioned in the article already, but still strange how common it seems to be.
Edit: though this is not exactly an article, but rather a presentation's/talk's "text" version, and the illustrations are slides. So it probably wasn't meant to look/be quite like that.
It's the text version of a talk. Those are the slides. I can forgive that.
This was published in 2015 - since then the loading="lazy" attribute has gained widespread browser support. I've used that myself for some of my talk-as-blog-post pieces, eg https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/
Here's the truly obese video and audio version of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U
Just so no one assumes that’s all it’s about — the critique of bloated articles about bloat is really only the introduction. It’s worth reading beyond that. The writing is delicious.
Maciej is a really gifted writer. All the transcribed talks on his site are gold.
I think i might stay fascinated forever, by how well most humans can live with cognitive dissonance.
Society of mind. We're all just a bunch of different people in the same head.
> many of which are just amusing pictures
The horror