The benefits of being fully static

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Got this Security Alert from Vercel today: https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/security-bulletin-cve-2025-55184-and-cve-2025-55183

Which is a good reminder that

  • The cyber crooks are getting smarter and smarter
  • With that, the simplest thing is to dumb down the application (e.g. plain HTML + CSS).
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I agree. Overengineering has made web development far more complex than it needs to be, often increasing the attack surface instead of reducing it. At some point it makes sense to pause and reassess whether all this tooling and abstraction is actually delivering proportional value. In many cases, going back to simpler, more transparent foundations—plain HTML and CSS, with minimal JavaScript—results in applications that are easier to reason about, easier to secure, and easier to maintain. Simplicity is not a step backward; it is often the most effective way forward.

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