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Zach Leatherman :11ty:

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

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Zach Leatherman :11ty:

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

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Blake Watson :prami:

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

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kolya

@bw @zachleat you mean like the ancient Roman bridge engineers many of whose bridges still exist today and carry car weights that were unthinkable when these bridges were designed? youtu.be/K0PA_hX8fVs

YouTubeHow much weight could a Roman bridge carry?By toldinstone
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:

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

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kolya

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

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kolya

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

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kolya

@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.

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