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Loading is a promise

Connection · 2 June 2026

A waiter who brings bread first is not stalling; he is promising that dinner is coming. A skeleton screen does the same, and breaks the same way when the wrong dish arrives.

Behind this

notes
Layout shift feels like being lied to.A waiter who brings bread before the food.

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