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endtimes.dev is a personal blog at endtimes.dev about web and writing. Since 2021, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2022-08-25
- Lowercase letters save data5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-25
- Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-14
- Dithered images and websites (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- Actually, dark mode can save the planet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
What Hacker News says?
I use a "textured" font on my website ( https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English , see https://maya.land ) and it bothers me all the time that the deformations repeat across letters -- like cracked stone ones where the cracks are the same on every "a"? Because I think mine's simple enough, eventually I'm going to figure out how to get a similar effect with an SVG filter like the "xerox" one on https://endti…
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on “Yep, I created the new Avatar font”Submitted A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page as a story · 933 points
HN discussionhttps://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-work-without-ja...
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on “Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)”Submitted A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) as a story · 504 points
HN discussionSee also the 14KB website article: https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i... Optimizing per-packet really improves things but has gotten very difficult with SSL and now QUIC. I'm not sure Google ever got the front page down to a single packet (would love a reference!) but it definitely paid very close attention to every byte and details of TCP performance.
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on “How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?”Submitted Lowercase letters save data as a story · 217 points
HN discussionAnother reason to golf. It's not quite right, but it's a fun goal to fit an app within the first few TCP roundtrips. https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...
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on “Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers”Submitted Your website should work without JavaScript (2021) as a story · 129 points
HN discussionThe article is a rebuttal to this article ( https://endtimes.dev/why-you-should-dither-images/ ), which in fact used photographic images, so definitely not a straw-man article in this case. Mpqzcp nzxxpyetyr htes pxzetzylwwj-nslcrpo nzxxpyed, dpp tq jzfc nzxxpye xlvpd dpydp ty esp nzyepie zq esp lcetnwp lyo yze ufde esp etewp. Nzxxpyetyr hteszfe vyzhtyr esp nzyepie xlvpd jzf wzzv (opdpcgtyrwj) defato.
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on “Websites should not use dithered images”Submitted Dithered images and websites (2020) as a story · 110 points
HN discussionI’ve written a tutorial on building one of these that uses a checkbox. There’s more ways than a button or a link. Some people have suggested in the comments using details and summary. It works without javascript, represents the states open and closed without requiring any aria attributes and some other usability features people might find interesting. https://endtimes.dev/html-and-css-only-multiple-color-scheme...
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on “When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons”Submitted Why your website should be under 14kB in size as a story · 19 points
HN discussion10K seems arbitrary, why not 14K as discussed here: https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...
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on “10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size”Submitted Why your website should work without JavaScript (2021) as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> You don't need this code! > By default, all browsers look for a file /favicon.ico in a site's root directory. That must be a drop in the ocean compared to all the requests for non-existent favicons thanks to this behavior... (Which can be prevented via [2], apparently!) > 180x180 is the largest icon size any iOS device requires. Other devices will downscale the image to fit. Using more data (which uses both energy…
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on “Get Out of My Head”Submitted Why your website should be under 14kB in size (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionif a website's bundle is <14kb, it will load instantly. https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...
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on “Firefox 153.0 Beta”Submitted Why lowercase letters save data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI switched my small personal projects to preact in a (temporarily successful effort) to get one under 14kb after re-reading [0] a year or two back. So far haven't run into any limitations. If you need React, then go ahead and use React, but I'd encourage people to try a simple s/react/preact/g on their websites. (Okay, not quite as simple as that, but even if you don't like vibe coding, this is something an LLM can…
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on “You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript”Submitted Why lowercase letters save data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why your website should be under 14kB in size (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can use Emojis as Favicons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actually, dark mode can save the planet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why lowercase letters save data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Mode Can Save the Planet as a story · 1 points
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