When there’s no tests or documentation and the system requirements aren’t clear, sometimes a rewrite, even if it is eventually discarded, is the fastest way to clarity.
When there’s no tests or documentation and the system requirements aren’t clear, sometimes a rewrite, even if it is eventually discarded, is the fastest way to clarity.
YouTube: What the vegan creator of Peaceful Cuisine eats in a day. This is very different from my primarily cookie-based diet.
I’d love to know the background of why Chip and Pin is so fantastically difficult to implement in the US. It seems insane that mobile payments may be mainstream before Chip and Pin is common.
It’s pretty easy for “providing a valuable product for users” to turn into “designing addictive products” in a way that no longer benefits people positively. This seems like a fertile place for ethics to study.
Canada could really use a pay-per-minute dry sauna startup right about now. Pay $20 to remember what warm feels like.
I love this collection from 512Pixels of OS X wallpapers from every release upscaled to 5K so they work on modern hardware. The one from Tiger is still my favourite. The only thing they’re missing is the graphite versions.
How do all these kids shows only have a single female character. And, of course, they’re entirely clothed in pink. Does no one comment on this during development?
🎙 Sometimes it’s nice to listen to a relaxing podcast. I’m really enjoying The Incomparable’s Low Definition. It’s a bunch of friends hanging around playing a wackier version of Balderdash.
Excited to see that micro.blog is a supporter of Emoji Driven Development. Screw the blockchain, I’m a firm believer that all product designs should start from a place of: “How do we get more emoji in here?”
Having a dream about my inability to sleep.
RescueTime suggests that peak programmer hours are on average between 2pm and 6pm. This aligns with my experience that we need a solid ramp up period before being productive developers.
Once programmers have gotten going, interruptions are incredibly destructive to the tune of at least 15 minutes to ramp back up depending on memory load.
The ramp up period is so important and the cost of interruptions are so high that it’s important to find ways to defend your uninterrupted time. Book periods of work on your calendar, put up Do Not Distrub signs, get out of the office, etc.
It’s also really…
Continue Reading…Yesterday, we used the Instant Pot to make eggs for breakfast, hot dogs for the kiddo for lunch, and risotto for dinner. At this point you could probably replace our range.
Given that it was Google that discovered Meltdown and Spectre, and hardware vendors were notified on June 1, 2017, I would have expected that the software companies would have been notified early and would have been prepared with patches (or have already shipped them).
I just noticed that the sleep sack I’ve been putting my kid in for a year has a giant warning label that says: “KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE”. I get that fire is bad, but this does not inspire confidence.
I really like this Manager’s FAQ by Henry Ward. It is overly simplistic in some places, but it’s a good starting point to think about some common manager topics.
It’s fascinating that Amazon has such a inconsistent visual style. They obviously have a legion of UX professionals, but large parts of the website and apps feel under-designed. Seems to be working for them though.
I’m really enjoying only being able to edit CSS on hosted micro.blog sites. Eventually I’m sure we’ll get more power, but for the moment it feels like the CSS Zen Garden all over again (but with Typekit 😛).
The magic of the Instant Pot isn’t that it’s faster. It’s that all the recipes are hands off once you reach the pressure stage.
No, I don’t think you understand Daddy. I requested ice cream for breakfast. If ice cream is unavailable, cake is an appropriate substitute.
Still waiting for Jerry O’Connell’s big comeback.
It’s really important to read the privacy policies of these new email clients. Many of their business models are based on taking an entire copy of your emails and using what they discover about you to make money from advertisers and other 3rd parties.
Dokku is a great solution to hosting a bunch of low-traffic internal or hobby sites. It’s functionally private Heroku or git-managed Docker. Great developer experience: git push dokku and it’s deployed.
Never mind that Yarn is faster, leveraging the power of emoji makes it feel faster. 🏎💨
I really don’t like it when someone casually says that something is a “solved problem”. It conflates a binary fact with a claim about difficulty. Just because there are known solutions to a problem doesn’t mean they are trivial to implement for your business or product.
Sorry kids, Santa has a strict “no presents until the first coffee has been consumed” policy.