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Web Directions
Company blog · webdirections.org/blogwebdesign
Web Directions is the company blog at webdirections.org, writing about web and design. Since 2008, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The Web's Timeline”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Web Directions blog posts linked for web page bloat and design, mainly 'The Website Obesity Crisis' on page weight. Commenters mostly cite or point to them, and one calls the talk witty.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Conferences for web and digital professionals, in person and online
Most-linked posts?
- The Web's Timeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-21
- /blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Website Obesity Crisis, a witty talk by Maciej Cegłowski (2015): https://www.webdirections.org/blog/the-website-obesity-crisi... I would post the text version, but somehow the CDN is down.
Comment linking /blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/
on “In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved”Submitted The State of Web Development 2010 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI have been fighting for years to get people used to "90s aesthetics." Then again, I think (bitmap) aliased fonts, bitmap gif patterns, classic bitmap icons (susan kare, early KDE, IRIX, BeOS, Plan9, Mac OS 9, etc.), Netscape, CDE etc. were all incredibly beautiful. I have railed against complexity since as early as I can remember. It's even more important for web design. Give me simple HTML with a touch of css, and…
Comment linking /blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/
on “Brutalist Websites”Submitted Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIts called "The website obesity crisis" http://www.webdirections.org/blog/the-website-obesity-crisis...
Comment linking /blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/
on “Why is the Internet so Slow?”Submitted Why “open always wins” isn’t the point as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI’m a developer at Fastmail, and I’m going to bite. Personally , I prefer binary formats where feasible, because I like pursuing efficiency to extremes, and write all my own code in Rust. Professionally, I happen to write mostly JavaScript, and no Rust at all, but we do still focus on performance at Fastmail. (It’s in the name!) If you’re comparing JSON to s-expressions, it’s a wash in efficiency. They’re both “inef…
Comment linking /code/speakers/neil-jenkins.php
on “The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)”Submitted Creating iOS 7 effects with CSS3: translucency and transparency as a story · 4 points
HN discussionComments on the thread are good -- here's the one that pointed me to the article in the first place: http://www.webdirections.org/blog/help-stop-the-spread-of-ni...
Comment linking /blog/help-stop-the-spread-of-nibs-native-is-better-syndrome/comment-page-1/
on “Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome)”Submitted Not Real Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of (Mobile) Web Development 2011 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with "Mathematically Proven" Claims About LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web's Timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A timeline of the history of the World Wide Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of the Web Survey 2008 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Structure of Engineering Revolutions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I for one welcome our GPT overlords co-workers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the Web? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy 17th Birthday CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing with animation – video presentation from Pasquale D’Silva as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The proof of the pudding - Conference Diversity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web History, a Timeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the web from 1940 (work in progress) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The web is a different problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scott Berkun: Transcript & mp3 of 'The myths of innovation' as a story · 1 points
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