“Undervaluing User Research is a Deadly Disease - UX Strategy Playbook with Jared Spool - Medium”
“Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way”
With this, their handbook, Shape Up and their blog, Basecamp is basically open sourcing the foundation processes for running a lean but sensible software SMB.
It’s all worth paying attention to.
The proliferation of platforms prevents expertise and mastery.
“Estimating NetNewsWire for iOS Demand”
“it would be reasonable to guess that the number of people who use an RSS reader is probably greater than a million, and could be several million people.”
Really impressed by the selection of comics in Icelandic these days, largely due to one publisher: Froskur Útgáfa.
I attempted last year to go all in on Chrome OS, bought a fully specced out Pixelbook but it has just consistently been less functional and less stable than even plain old Desktop Linux. Even linux app support is messy.
“Putting devs before users: how frameworks destroyed web performance”
I’ve mentioned this before but it really does feel like pushback against heavyweight frameworks and excessive client-side code has reached critical mass.
“How Running Your Own Website Is Much Better for You Than You Think · Jens Oliver Meiert”
“The commitment you need for your own website is the mark of a professional”
“Adactio: Links—A short history of body copy sizes on the Web”
“There are some good arguments here for the upper limit on the font size there being too high”
My goals for the year:
Help people create leaner, more reading-oriented and readable websites
Learn Swift native app development
Use regular writing as my primary mental and emotional sense-making tool again
Reconnect with people back home in Iceland
How about you?
“Create a semantic “breakout” button to make an entire element clickable - Andy Bell”
“Performance testing HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/2 + Server Push for REST APIs”
“Progressive Web Apps in 2020 - Maximiliano Firtman - Medium”
Good overview of the state of play
One thing I absolutely love about being back in Iceland over the holidays are the ravens, like this one chilling on a streetlight.
The Neighbour
