Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP

Well, it’s a published Notion site, and Notion is a powerful doc creation platform. It’s not really intended to be a performant publishing tool.

Or a performant anything else, AFAICT

It’s a performant publishing tool (depending, of course, on your expectations) but it’s not a high performance publishing tool.

It's a performant publishing tool and perhaps even high performance publishing tool - in terms of user effort. What it's not is performant displaying the thing it published.

Yeah the guy at my last place that was proud of serving < 2 req/s/core liked to use the world “powerful” too. It’s like it was his favorite word. And he’s on the short list of people I refuse to work with again. What a putz.

“Just because you are bad guy doesn’t mean you are bad guy.”

Well Notion usually exceeds at least 3 req/s/core, so nothing to worry about there

<snerk>

Well then that’s a relief.

That’s fair. Viewers who don’t know what is serving the page will be disappointed. If you know it’s Notion, then it works about as expected which satisfies the definition of performant.

Powerful, lightweight, configurable, performance.

These are some of the biggest weasel words of IT. Every one of them has an implicit nature of a comparison word and yet the comparison or any sort of hard metrics are always completely absent in their use.

Yarp.

Infinite configurability means infinite validation time.

>a powerful doc creation platform

Which, based on what I see in the rendered archive.is version, is being used to do nothing outside of the normal use of a standard Markdown-based SSG like Nikola or Jekyll.

Not that doing more would be a good idea anyway.