Facebook Is a Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

Every time someone visits News Feed there are on average 1,500 potential stories from friends, people they follow and Pages for them to see, and most people don’t have enough time to see them all. These stories include everything from wedding photos posted by a best friend, to an acquaintance checking in to a restaurant. …

The relentless pace of change

Extract from a breathtaking 24ways-piece by Christopher Murphy: On 21 May 2013, I woke in a hospital bed feeling exhausted, disorientated and ashamed. The day before, I had tried to kill myself. We work in a fast-paced industry: few others, if any, confront the daily challenges we face. The landscape we work within is characterised …

Making ‘git rebase’ Safe on OS X

When performing a large rebase with several commits and many changed files on OS X 10.7+, the rebase process can randomly abort, stating that there are uncommitted changes and rebase cannot continue. However, a git status does not report any changes. Fix is to set core.trustctime to false. Run the command below to do so: …

Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard

Let’s face it: Grunt is one of those fancy newfangled things that all the cool kids seem to be using but at first glance feels strange and intimidating. I hear you. This article is for you. Great introduction to Grunt on 24ways. A must read for anyone starting out with it. Grunt for People Who …

$://showterm

It’s showtime in a terminal near you! Put on your best colours, resize to 80 columns, and let your fingers fly! Termshows are purely text based. This makes them ideal for demoing instructions (as the user can copy-paste), making fail-safe “live-coding” sessions (plain text is very scalable), and sharing all your l33t terminal hacks. Great …