“Why you should charge more for your app subscriptions – Matt Ronge”
There’s a reason why the advice from those who have started SaaSes in the past is always Charge More™
“Cabin: Creating simple apps for Linux”
This is interesting.
“Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data – dirtystylus - Mark Llobrera”
‘Projects that set out to be a “one-stop shop” for a particular domain are often doomed.’
“Discovery - Learning vs. Insights - Silicon Valley Product Group”
This is a substantial problem at Amazon, just in my personal experience as a shopper
“Eleventy Leaderboards v2 via Speedlify—zachleat.com”
Automatic, self-hosted performance monitoring is starting to look fairly straightforward for Eleventy users
“Last Week on My Mac: Is macOS becoming unmaintainable?”
Apple has a software maintenance problem. (It never ceases to be funny to me that the much-maligned Safari team is obviously the best resourced and most functional dev team at the co.)
“Why Gregory Bateson Matters - Los Angeles Review of Books”
I need to reread “Steps to an Ecology of Mind” as it was hugely formative for me when I first read it 20 years ago.
Also, coincidentally, hugely formative for my dad when he read it 40 years ago.
“Milestones of User Interface Design”
This sort of study of prior art was the foundation of academic interactive media practice. You don’t do this in UX or Comp. Sci. courses?
“Why is this interesting? - The 2x2 Edition - Why is this interesting?”
It’s obviously more accessible than actually useful things like maps. But it’s very disconcerting to have your livelihood rely on executives who can barely handle the complexity of a 2x2 grid
“How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks”
The web’s homogeneity is even greater today than back in the early days of blogging.
Also, the conventions of blogging, as well as the label, are simply a bad fit for most sites, personal or professional.
“Worth Your Attention – Jorge Arango”
About to read the links in this post and they all look interesting. So, incoming…
“Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”