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Josh Brody · Apr 28, 2026

We made this hard: over-engineering the web

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We made this hard The job hasn’t changed in thirty years. A request comes in. You return some HTML. The browser draws it. Maybe you sprinkle some CSS on top so it doesn’t look like a 1996 GeoCities fever dream, or maybe you do so it does. That’s the whole gig. Somewhere along the way we convinced ourselves this hard. It isn’t. It really, really isn’t. And the people paying for our confusion are…

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