Truly. Morning coffee is a honest to god religious experience, we have the accompanying ceremonial apparatus of great desire at USGC and @htmx_org HQ. I do not smoke, but if you do, that must elevate the spirits across the board... olfactory senses, mental acuity and its impact
I’ve seen teams grind for multiple man years on a project to end up with 20% perf gains under unrealistic full load perf tests, to no actual users benefit and to the huge detriment to the code base
After taking out all heap memory allocations in a real time javascript app I was still trying to optimize it further by rewriting heavy math in C -> WASM
Zero performance gain. It was quite a lesson in what computers actually do
