korrents

A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?

Computing is an onion, and the more layers of it you can peel back and understand, the better you can build for the constrained machines real people are using.

Drawn from what Addy Osmani said

What this subject means

software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Addy Osmani actually said

Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.

  1. Addy Osmani

    Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google

    if you treat computing as this onion where you just keep peeling back the layers, there's always something interesting behind the scenes. And the more of those layers that you can peel back and understand, I think in some ways the better you can optimize for that world.

Added to korrents 19 Aug 2026 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

Sign in to record that you hold this, with a confidence number of your own.

Related korrents

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

On the map

Loading the map… or open it on its own page

Open the map on its own page →