The browser is striking back.

Bloated stacks, fragile abstractions, bad defaults - it’s all catching up with us.

I’ll dig into all of this at Web Directions Dev Summit, Nov 19–20 (Sydney + online).

💸 Codes: jonodevsummit25 / jonodevsummit25streaming

webdirections.org/dev-summit

I've spent a chunk of today trying to answer "What is (and who owns) WordPress?", once and for all.

It's... complicated.

mm.tt/app/map/3563...

Oooh, new toy in Cursor.

I spent years defending Yoast SEO against claims that it was 'bloated'. We worked hard to make sure it wasn't.

Now, their AI recommendations feature ships a *1.8mb* JS file on post edit pages; mostly for creating+manipulating inline HTML & setting Tailwind classes.

Extremely disappointing.