Trying to read it and I find it quite ironic that a website called "the luddite" requires you to have Javascript (which I don’t have in my default browser)
If your default browser has JavaScript disabled, you have surely noticed that >90% of the websites you visit appear to be broken. And today you again visited another website which appeared to be broken for you with JavaScript disabled. You were so surprised by this incident that you decided to write a comment on the internet about it.
Well, you would be surprised to heard that, actually, the vast majority of text websites (blogs, news, etc…) works pretty well without javascript (I’m browsing in offpunk by default).
In fact, they often actually work better: I can read the text without any other annoyance.
There are rare exceptions like this one and some personal blog from developers who insists on not putting the text in the HTML but through Javascript.
It is not only annoying, this is a total misunderstanding of what the web should be and, TBH, borderline stupid when done on purpose. (because it is more complex, it breaks most accessibility and it doesn’t add anything.)
Most websites actually appear more broken with Javascript disabled. For example the Gluten-Free Apple Crisp recipe mentioned in this article - it's not as easy to read as with the recipe extractor, but it is significantly easier to read with Javascript disabled.
It is surprising that someone who complains about such things and understands them requires Javascript for a simple blog post.
Because JavaScript is the last thing you need to serve a blog post
consisting of plain text and a couple of images. Forcing more powerful
technology than necessary on readers is the polar opposite of what a
luddite would do.
It's almost as ironic as the author of an "anticapitalist tech blog"
complaining about the hoops they must jump through to sell their users'
attention to one of the largest corporations on Earth.
Maybe you've gotten luddites and carthusians mixed up.
A luddite is a socialist that refuses to allow the capitalist to use technology against the formation of self-organised labour, i.e. a person depriving the owner class of the means of production with the aim of the working class taking control over them. It's not a cloistered order or something like that.
