Short arguments for using what the browser already does.
Every Single-Page App Is a Worse Browser Running Inside a Browser
Good intentions snowball into a shitty browser inside a browser. A team decides the server will speak JSON and the client will do the rest, and four runs later they've rebuilt the back button, the cache, scroll restoration and the URL by hand, worse. With a yeti.
September 9, 2026
Everybody Builds Six-Digit Code Inputs Wrong. Just Use a Text Field.
Websites build a six-digit login code like it's a nuclear launch console. Here's what that breaks, live, and the one HTML input that replaces all of it.
September 8, 2026
Stop Bloating Motherfucking Websites
Four profane single-page manifestos have argued for plain HTML for over a decade. I ran all of them through Lighthouse, plus craigslist, Legible News, and this site. The numbers are funnier than the pages.
September 8, 2026
It Takes 20 Minutes to Fix a Typo. In 2006 It Took 10 Seconds.
In 2006 you opened the file over SFTP, fixed the character, hit save, and it was live. We traded that latency for safety, a good trade we then never revisited.
September 8, 2026
Modals Are Broken by Design. The Spec Says So.
The answer to a modal usually isn't a better modal. It's a page on the server, with a real URL, the actual data, and room for a challenge.
September 8, 2026
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