[d--b]

Yet the author spent a whole afternoon (hopefully not more!) writing a website to tell some people (who exactly?) that they’re doing it wrong.

[fouc]

it's a web page on a subdomain of his existing personal website, so probably didn't take him much time at all, probably about as fast as it would take to write up the text in a word document and then farting around with the styling and javascript a bit.

[wiseowise]

> Yet the author spent a whole afternoon

As opposed to what? Not doing anything at all and participating in this insanity of complexity?

[DrewADesign]

Yeah, but the building phase of an overly complex system is rarely the big time suck: maintaining and modifying it are.