every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the “works on my machine” jar

[tomw@mastodon.social]

@zachleat The real achievement is to make a website that feels dog slow on *any* device you throw at it. Just an absolute mess where scrolling barely works and then the tab hangs

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@tomw well wait these are everywhere

[a11ymel@front-end.social]

@zachleat my knees especially, so creaky these days

[bkardell@toot.cafe]

@zachleat yeah but does it *feel* like the silliest thing, or is it measurably & demonstrably the silliest thing?

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@bkardell brian we are enemies now

[bw@social.lol]

@zachleat feels good man

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@bw the vibes are on point

[bw@social.lol]

@zachleat Imagine if real engineers were like “yeah this bridge feels sturdy to me, ship it.”

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@bw I ran 100 sports cars over the bridge so it should handle semi-trucks just fine

[bkardell@toot.cafe]

@zachleat it only feels that way though

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@bkardell fair—we are friends again

[kolya@social.cologne]

@bw @zachleat you mean like the ancient Roman bridge engineers many of whose bridges still exist today and carry car weights that didn't even exist when they were designed? https://youtu.be/K0PA_hX8fVs

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@kolya @bw do… do you think Roman engineers built bridges by saying “it feels sturdy, ship it?”

[kolya@social.cologne]

@zachleat @bw I mean they didn't have the math to calculate stress etc, so yeah, they winged it, very successfully.

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@kolya @bw it’s wild that roman bridge building is cited directly on the history of mathematics wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics