• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    It’s ‘minified’, in case you’re not familiar with that. Basically, many webpages come with such obscene amounts of JavaScript, that it genuinely impacts how quickly the webpage downloads. And then replacing such amenities as whitespace or readable variable names with just 1 space or 1 letter, where possible, genuinely improves on that.

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      7 hours ago

      I know what it is and I hate it.

      Gzipped files are about the same size and the code would still be readable by people wanting to learn.

      The modern web is an abortion.