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Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight by re-thc on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:51AM (#48489113)
> argue vocally with me in a meeting stating that "500 JavaScript requests is not a problem" for a single page

Where's the benchmark or at least the numbers? If not, that's not proof of anything. Nothing to argue about. I'd just laugh.

> You can't win against cargo-cult coders

You don't need to. Unless you're not in control or don't have influence then whatever. It shouldn't be about "winning". It's either some vote (hence influence) or there's a process e.g. PoC with backed numbers.

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Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight by jiggawatts on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:11AM (#48504349)
β€œThe amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” -- Alberto Brandolini

I like to fight this kind of asinine "push back" by simply reversing the time order:

Here's an app that does 5 CDN-cached requests of its JavaScript. Demonstrate why disabling the CDN cache and splitting that into 500 individual requests is better.

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