Watching one of the 80s comedies I know I enjoyed as a kid. People back in the 80s really thought that sexism and homophobia (and a surprising amount of anti-unionism) were just plain funny, huh?

My excuse is that I was a dumb kid. Wonder what excuse the grownups had.

“Amphora. — Ethan Marcotte”

“The end times are here, and I am at Target - The Outline”

I’ve been having this very same thought a lot lately.

“Does talent matter? — Crooked Timber”

The answer, at least as far as workplaces go, is a solid no, as Deming and others demonstrates ages ago. You can accomplish amazing things just by minimizing dysfunction, both individual and institutional.

“OPP (Other People’s Problems) - Camille Fournier - Medium”

As a slight counterpoint to my web dev gloom lately: I’m testing building one component in a work project as a Svelte 3 component and it is rather nice once you get past the build setup.

Still haven’t figured out how to test it properly yet.

“A Mindful Approach to Technology – The Sweet Setup”

I don’t know what this says about the state of web development, but it says something.

(alt: the npmjs.com consuming over 50% of a CPU)

“Let’s write more blog posts: an experiment by Amy Hupe, content designer.”

I really like this idea, would like to write more blog posts, just not entirely sure what to label myself as TBH.

“Revamping Firefox’s Reader Mode this Summer - monotonous.org”

This sort of structure is hard to pull off in a short entry. It probably would have worked better in a longer post that alternated between the two themes.

Posted this yesterday evening. Probably the blog post with the oddest structure I’ve written in a long while. It’s ultimately about the lack of joy in web development

“Web Dev: The Red Queen Wire Mommy of Modern Tech”

“You’re Not an Imposter if You Have a Dayjob and Write”

“We Don’t Do That Here”

I wonder if publishers who sell the ebook edition of a $40 book for $39 end up being surprised at how low their ebook sales are? Or are low ebook sales the point?

Finally back in Montréal after a month in Iceland. Still on Iceland time 😝

“Without theory there is no learning - Vanguard”

“Motivation? - Vanguard”

“Test of a good measure - Vanguard”

“Experience alone, without theory, teaches management nothing about what to do to improve quality and competitive position, nor how to do it.”

“Eliminate numerical goals for management - Vanguard”

“Internal goals set in the management of a company, without a method, are a burlesque”

“95% of performance is governed by the system - Vanguard”

“Local services are human, receptive, engaging and productive. Counterintuitively, they are also high quality and low cost.”

“Psst. Turns out 80% of books published in 1924-1963 are secretly in the public domain.”

“The simplest Svelte component is an empty file » Jesse Skinner » Web Development with JavaScript, CSS and HTML”