Try it yourself: show the same page to 3 people, one with the 300ms topbar and another with a 2s delay. Ask which one felt faster.

If the bar shows up in under 2s, your brain goes “this page is slow.” If it never shows, you just feel like the page loaded faster. I’ve seen React apps slower than LiveView but they feel faster because they don’t show a loading topbar.

What state management library have you been using?

That hit me hard.

Sometimes we forget why we started. We chase approval, expectations, pressure. But the best version of us only shows up when we’re doing it for ourselves. When we play the game just because we fucking love it.