I spent 15 minutes trying to understand why a Blazor callback took a whole second to be invoked. I was confident it was something weird with how I wired things up, and never bothered to look at the actual code executed in the callback. The actual code executed in the callback:
The front end of the app I inherited at my current client, is stuffed full of arbitrary delays like this.
Yeah, that’ll do it.
Ha ha, been there with something like this. Demoing a feature to a higher up, who questioned the slow performance. We spent ages looking everywhere for the problem. Everywhere except the line where we'd hardcoded a delay during testing 🤦
Procrastination is built into the foundation of both humans and software.