Apparently NYT fell for the "CSS-in-JS" nonsense too. Absolutely wild.

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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 23:02:56 JST Alex Russell

   It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

   Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk: