(Michael Scott:) Finally! Thank you. The "old school" PHP -> HTML + CSS with minimal JavaScript website is a thing of beauty I think. It's heartwarming that HN didn't dismiss my website just because it's not Web 2.0 or 3.0. From a technical perspective it's very much Web 1.0. But I see it as being elegant, functional, very fast and maintainable. It's tied in to the game at a core level as well, with real-time updates of in-game action. Also: I didn't even see a CPU spike during HN's peak hug, so try harder, soldiers!

As for the older hardware and building something for performance: in my dreams this past night I realized that HN as a website closely fits my design philosophy. This website is just completely transparent and gets out of your way. You get a box. You enter text. Boom. It's beautiful. I hadn't posted on here before, but the entire experience has been delightful.

Tangent: sometimes it feels like the home computer I grew up with was faster than any modern device that I use. I'm glad I'm at least able to recreate that feeling of raw performance on older hardware. Computers have always been insanely fast, I'm not sure where we lost sight of that.