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by chattoraj 4553 days ago
Feel like it’s worth highlighting this part of the post:

>There is no good reason to do this

I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.

1 comments

Why not?
All the extra JavaScript makes your site slow.
Can you quantify how slow? This is a common refrain against some of these sorts of things (and, indeed, the modern web in general): "adding this thing makes your site slow". But I rarely see quantified results...
it's actually a super tiny amount of JavaScript, you'd be surprised what you can do without something like jQuery bulking things up.