“What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings”
... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
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“What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings”
“Welcome to the New Blog - Why we left Medium, and how!”
The usual reasons: Medium has gone off the rails, is now a bad user experience, etc.
“UX Strategy is a Long Game, But Worth Every Moment - Jared M. Spool - Medium”
“What happens to your iTunes account when Apple says you’ve committed fraud — Quartz”
“Browsers, input events, and frame throttling - Read the Tea Leaves”
Research. Research is good 🙂
How you can tell that Web Publications are dead: Amazon is has joined the W3C with an eye towards improving their epub ingestion and ebook accessibility www.w3.org/2019/08/0…
Out of Iceland, UK and Quebec, by far the worst healthcare system I’ve encountered is the one here in Quebec. Immigration-hostile. Bureaucracy that exceeds the one you find in the UK. The entire system seems mostly geared towards handling emergencies.
“Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech - WIRED”
Google honestly sounds like an awful place to work.
Both of today’s major app paradigms (native and web) have major inherent flaws.
The web practically has privacy violations baked in and when used for apps never really seems to perform well.
And native apps are an extremely hostile environment for creative expression.
“Emma Vieceli’s BREAKS webcomic censored by Apple for ‘overtly sexual’ content - The Beat”
If you’re a service that distributes any form of creative expression, Apple is making their app platform untenable.
“Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology”
“This is what a moral panic looks like – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
“In Search of a Stack That Monitors the Quality and Complexity of CSS - CSS-Tricks”
As a comp. lit. degree holder who has spent dealt with too many narcissists, I feel ready to call this:
The main difference between literary fiction and genre fiction is that in genre fiction the narcissists are the villains, but in literary fiction they are the protagonist.
“All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people”
“High-performance input handling on the web - Read the Tea Leaves”
This sort of research is so so useful. Very much appreciated.
Can’t get this in Iceland
“Networks Of Trust: Dismantling And Preventing Harassment – Chris’s Design & Development”