Simon Willison: PCGamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
Simon Willison·low signal
Stuart Breckenridge flagged that PC Gamer published an RSS reader recommendation article that itself weighs 37MB and streams content indefinitely — a real-world performance horror story Willison investigated and audited. The irony of a bloated article recommending lightweight RSS is sharp, but the deeper finding is about how modern CMS pipelines routinely ship pathological performance without anyone noticing. Useful context for anyone building or auditing content pipelines.