design: animations & perception of sluggishness

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         - hint: unlike this page (for now), the Atom feed exposes _categories_ you can feed to your reader to filter out posts you don't want to see.
 
+        - also, the Atom feed does not contain post content.
+        this is due to the treehouse being {-cybernetically enhanced-} better with all my artisanal touches and CSS!
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+        if you want to read any of the posts, follow the links.
+        it's like that by design.
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+- ### [animations & perception of sluggishness][page:design/animations]
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+    - I got a little angry at Windows at work today, because I wanted to close a window via the right-click menu on the taskbar, and ended up clicking during the _tiny_ time window where the animation is playing and your clicks are ignored.
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+        - so I disabled animations in the entire system, and _wow_ is Windows hella snappy with animations disabled!
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+        and that got me thinking: maybe all the crazy people saying "you should disable animations everywhere because they waste your time" weren't so crazy after all :thinking:
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+        - but I'm fine with animations on my Google Pixel as well as my GNOME desktop, so what gives?
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+            - this post aims to explore that.
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