Web

• The 49MB Web Page: Hostile Design as Correct Engineering March 19, 2026

  The New York Times homepage is 49MB and requires 422 network requests. The engineers who built it optimised correctly -- they hit their metrics. This is the most important engineering ethics lesson in the attention economy: when the proxy becomes the target, the proxy stops working and the product becomes adversarial.

• WebAssembly Is a Second-Class Web Citizen. Mozilla Wants to Change That. March 11, 2026

  WebAssembly has run in browsers since 2017, but you still can't use it without JavaScript glue code. Mozilla's Component Model proposal would change that -- and it's a bigger deal than it sounds.