Re:JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
by jonoalderson on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:56AM
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Thanks for all the delightful feedback, folks!
Some people rightly pointed out that it was a bit hypocritical of my site to be loading a bunch of third-party JS and resources(!), which I've now addressed.
In my defence, this was only due to loading ReCAPTCHA on blog posts as a quick protection mechanism from an influx of spam - which I've now replaced with Turnstile (and only lazily trigger the JS+resources for that when the comment form enters the viewport).
Also, no, the post wasn't written by AI / ChatGPT / etc. :)
Some people rightly pointed out that it was a bit hypocritical of my site to be loading a bunch of third-party JS and resources(!), which I've now addressed.
In my defence, this was only due to loading ReCAPTCHA on blog posts as a quick protection mechanism from an influx of spam - which I've now replaced with Turnstile (and only lazily trigger the JS+resources for that when the comment form enters the viewport).
Also, no, the post wasn't written by AI / ChatGPT / etc. :)