Comment by nerevarthelame
8 days ago
On top of the poor readability, my 2-year-old laptop can't even navigate through the page without CPU and GPU going insane, and my fans blasting at max speed. It's the poorest, choppiest web performance I can recall, all for what should be a simple blog post.
That's the fault of modern websites being massive JavaScript ad-playing behemoths instead of sub-1kB served HTML as god intended.
Funny cause just today this made it to the front page of HN
https://animejs.com/
It has way fancier animations and scrolls like butter
That's likely because it offloads most of the job to GPU. On a potato it's also very choppy, but CPU fans stays quiet indeed. Gate's notes seems to put the most strain on CPU instead.
Seriously next level. I am on an old potato, and its smooth as silk, forward and backward. Backward. My potato is a ThinkPad i7 which slips into low speed at every single moment it can.
Tim Berners-Lee has been elevated to many things, but an ascension to deity must be a new reach.
I don't know, did you see the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony?
Kernighan & Ritchie deserve company
But it does distract from the insufferable self-aggrandizing slime he's shitting out.