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we must *measure* web performance and not rely on how things *feel*—what are we even doing, y’all

this feels like the silliest most mundane thing to say

@zachleat feels good man

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

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

@cthos @bw @zachleat Indeed, the Oceans Gate d00d found out that it certainly does not apply to deep sea submersibles.

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

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

@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

@zachleat @bw
I realize now that you're gonna do everything to make a clever remark, but watching the video I linked.

@zachleat @bw to sum it up for you: they built bridges a lot sturdier than they needed to be. and they re-used the same known-to-work arc design over and over. that's how they managed to build bridges that last to this day. there might be a lesson for web development in this, I don't know.