A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
This tweet by Niels Leenheer on his relationship with Apple hit more than close to home: My complex relationship with Apple: 1️⃣ As a customer I love their products. 2️⃣ As a developer I love their platform and hate their policies. 3️⃣ As a consumer I think they are greedy and hurting competition. 4️⃣ As …
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could have done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked. — David Perell Via @VisualizeValue
Derek Sivers, on how to improve life, not by adding things but by subtracting things: The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. The most successful people I know have a narrow focus, protect themselves against time-wasters, say …
Customer support is an R&D exercise. Every support ticket is an opportunity to think through: 🎫 How can we avoid having this support ticket on the future? 👓 How could we make the product clearer? 🤷🏻♀️ How could we avoid the confusion? 🐛 Fix the bug. —@parkerconrad — Garry() (@garrytan) June 1, 2019 Treat causes, …
Wait, we don’t like .reduce() now? I loved using reduce. Man, Twitter, I just got done refactoring all my code to hooks, binary templates, and async/await and now this. Twitter-driven-development is hard. 😓 — Brian Holt (@holtbt) February 24, 2019
Creating is easy. Shipping is the hard part, and countless companies never quite figure it out. Sure, they might release their software, but that’s not the same as shipping. No company is perfect, but it makes a big difference when they genuinely care. Shipping is about consistency. It’s regularly updated help documents. It’s responsive and …
Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, in an interview, answering a question on how his workspace is set up: I’m a one-computer guy—a 12″ MacBook, so I can work from anywhere. Years ago I used multiple monitors and had multiple computers. Then I jettisoned multiple computers but kept the multiple monitor setup. And a few years …
Now this sounds familiar: “L’esprit de l’escalier” is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late. According to Wikipedia: During a dinner at the home of statesman Jacques Necker, a remark was made to Denis Diderot which left him speechless at the time, because, he explains, …