I have no idea whether or not the lightness of websites measured in kB is going to drive a trend. But there is definitely a trend that our collective cost mode

I have no idea whether or not the lightness of websites measured in kB is going to drive a trend. But there is definitely a trend that our collective cost models are downshifting from “ah fuck it’ll be faster by the time this ships” to “well right this minute we’re not zero-effort scaling on the backs of the deep-infrastructure people”. Maybe this perspective is perverse, but I personally find it cool that there’s both money and hacker cred in counting bytes, even megabytes, after a long time of “well the hardware will be better in 6 months so why bother”.