So many great thoughts about software design, architecture, and open source:

“We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.”

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html

I also believe that programmers feel latency and it affects their mood even if they don't notice it. (Google has recently done some research in this area that kinda confirmed my belief, here's hoping they'll publish it publicly!)

I've been noticing this a lot lately (ironically, slack is one of the biggest culprits). I would love to see that research.

I think the dramatic effect of low latency is one of those things that's crystal clear if you ever get the chance to feel it. I made http://alltom.github.io/instantaneous-web/ to demonstrate minimal latency on the web: the entire page is just some preloaded static images where I hard-coded the flow for clicking Store > Shop Mac > From $999 > MacBook Air > iMac. Gives us something to shoot for!

@alltom That's a great demo.