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I'm always amazed to see how people who give advice (and good ones in this case) are totally unable to follow them on their websites.

296 http requests. 1.85mb transfered. Yslow grade D.

So yeah, these are good advices. In fact, the OP should follow 'em if he wants to "survive".

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I knew I wasnt missing out on much when an article about advice for the future of web development failed to load correctly on my phone.

Same here. This site and Steve Yegge's site fail to load in the stock cyanogen browser. Also they fail with Opera Mini. They do work with the Firefox Android browser at least.

I had my disclaimer, lol. As I already clarified some where else, these points are what I learned from what I was doing in the last few years, consulting for my customers modernizing their web sites/apps. And thanks for the advice, in fact I'm surviving pretty well ;)

Reminds me of that blog post on HN I saw about being responsive, which wasn't responsive...

he says at the bottom

"And a disclaimer – don’t look at the source code of my web page – I rarely work on that, and is using an old blogger template. lol"

Quality code ages well. Old is not an excuse for crappy or slow, neither you can so easily disclaim your own code.

Would you take fashion advices from someone with horrible and smelly clothes ?

Mind you, I know builders who still have unfinished jobs around their house. Car mechanics whose own vehicle could use work. Electricians etc...

I think valid advice is still valid, regardless of whether they practice what they preach. I also know how little time I have to work on my own sites with various project work I've got on...

Yes, but when great web developers on HN are a dime a dozen, I don't want to waste time on content that isn't polished.

The biggest irony: the HN site itself can hardly be considered 'polished'. I mean it still uses the <center> tag!

But it displays fine on the iPhone (and probably on many other devices and browsers). So, for its purpose it functions reasonably well.

Changed the template, so that you can read it better :). Do Checkout

This is like writing some crappy code, then adding a comment for the next coder that will work on that (when you probably have already moved on) that you didn't had time to make anything better. It changes absolutely nothing.

Every web designer blog post ever.

Alright dude, now check that again and buy me a beer ;)

He disclaims against that in the end. He lol'ed, even.

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