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Thursday, 22nd February 2024

JavaScript Bloat in 2024 (via) Depressing review of the state of page bloat in 2024 by Nikita Prokopov. Some of these are pretty shocking: 12MB for a Booking.com search, 9MB for a Google search, 20MB for Gmail(!), 31MB for LinkedIn. No wonder the modern web can feel sludgy even on my M2 MacBook Pro.

# 11:31 pm / web-performance

Okay, Color Spaces (via) Fantastic interactive explanation of how color spaces work by Eric Portis.

# 11:38 pm / colour, explorables