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Overusing Preload And SrcSet ? Pathetic Desperation By Inept Developers?

Jason Knight
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11 min readMar 29, 2024
Drooling idiot trying to put a square peg into a round hole
Eye Canz Dew Eeet!!! Failwind toweled mi sew!

I came across a real doozy in a FailwindUI template, and felt the need to share. Warning, this article is mostly venting.

It’s well known my low opinion of “my fellow web developers” rooted in the belief that most of them don’t know enough about HTML to even be using CSS or JavaScript. That lack of fundamental basic understanding cascades through every project, resulting in bloat, missed caching opportunities, higher server load, broken to non-existent accessibility, and dozens if not hundreds of other issues.

One of the most common problems created is the quest to layer on more and more code in an attempt to be faster. And another of the things I keep saying over and over:

If someone tells you to add more code to speed up bad code, your bullshit alarm should be going off.

But sadly far too many developers make excuses for their bad code, bad practices, and general ignorance. It is this willful ignorance that allows predatory scams like Tailwind, React, and so forth to sucker nubes and rubes alike.

There ARE many techniques for speeding up a website such as micro-managing your load orders with preload <link> or HTTP 2 Push (both do the same thing), or…

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Jason Knight
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Accessibility and Efficiency Consultant, Web Developer, Musician, and just general pain in the arse

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