performance
If it could save a person's life, would you find a way to make it faster?
Why aim small?
The Website Obesity Crisis
A Management Maturity Model for Performance
Reflections on Software Performance
Add Less
Site performance is potentially the most important metric
Website Response Times
Fast Software, the Best Software
Finda
A Plea for Lean Software
Speed is a feature
Performance and people
Why Software is Slow and Shitty
The Taft Test
Page weight matters
An Article by Chris ZachariasMany of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets.
Beauty and compression
An Article by Scott Alexander
The Buddha discusses states of extreme bliss attainable through meditation:
Secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, a bhikkhu enters and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by thought and examination, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.
...If you could really concentrate on a metronome, it would be more blissful than a symphony. The jhāna is also a strong contender as a theory of beauty: beauty is that which is compressible but has not already been compressed.