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by codefreq 2458 days ago
It does not open.
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20,450ms TTFB for me. Which is extremely long.

However the demonstrations are great, and some of the programs are inherently computationally expensive, so its sort of expected.

I believe all the programs do only clientside computations, so I wouldn't expect the TTFB to be long because of them.
26.79s for the document and 29.90s for the stylesheet (123kb and 9.7kb, respectively) in series for me. Took over 60s for all the content to load.
I'm wondering what is causing the congestion - it's not exactly a lot of data
Probably just volume of traffic rather than the size of the assets. Not everyone's personal site is hosted on auto-scaling could services et al. So often you'll see stuff get "hugged to death" (as it's affectionately known) just due to the site's own popularity.
This seems like something that would be perfect in a Jupyter Notebook or the like.
My God, It Never Loads

Edit: it did finally load. Its an interesting article and worth the wait, I thought

takes a while, worth the wait.
Author here. Thanks for waiting.

It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidth limits but PHP and SQL. The site runs on a creaky WordPress implementation. Someday I'll fix that, if I live so long.