SMRTR summary
A single custom font can add 40kb+ to page load times. A 3-line CSS fix replaces non-latin characters in bearblog's logo with system monospace fonts, eliminating the unnecessary font download entirely.
SMRTR provides this summary for quick context. The original article belongs to Hacker News.
Read the original articleThis archive is built from SMRTR newsletter summaries. Subscribe for hand-picked stories without the extra noise.
More SMRTR summaries that connect to this topic.
37signals built three production apps using only vanilla CSS, proving modern CSS features can replace build tools and frameworks.
Developer ditches Tailwind and HTMX for plain CSS and HTML forms, creating a bloat-free sticker server for Kubernetes.
A Next.js developer discovered their app's slow initial load was caused by excessive JavaScript bundling. Through bundle analysis and dependency mapping, they identified...
Pretext sidesteps expensive DOM reflow by implementing pure JavaScript text layout, enabling fast pre-render height calculations for virtualized UIs.
Pretext is a 5KB TypeScript library that measures text dimensions before DOM rendering, finally solving CSS's pre-render measurement limitations.
The developer rebuilt their website with plain HTML and CSS, ditching SvelteKit, which reduced asset size by 75%, simplified the project, removed most JavaScript, and kept...