“Around Paying for (and Charging for) Content - The Making of Making Sense”
“Forget SOLID. Say Hello To SHOC Principles for Modular Design. – Codemanship’s Blog”
“Speeding up often results in poor decisions that create future problems.”
Goes into way more depth on current state of bundling from a browser perspective than the simple title would imply. There aren’t many posts I’d describe as exhaustive but this one is.
“How many people subscribed to your RSS feed?”
Including subscriber count this way has been a tradition among feed reading services since before Google Reader IIRC.
“How I set up Glyphhanger on macOS for optimizing and converting font files for the Web”
“Why I close PRs (OSS project maintainer notes) - Jeff Geerling”
The comment thread on this post is a not-so-subtle demonstration as to why people tend to burn out.
“A Vision for Software Development: It’s All About Teams – Codemanship’s Blog”
“It’s just a pity the software itself was such a bad idea in the first place.”
“Effective Organizations Value Autonomy - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
“TBM 8/52: Avoid Mono-Process (But Embrace Shared Language) - The Beautiful Mess”
‘Wisdom From the Forums: “The Gap Between Expectations and Reality” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
“The Online Photographer: The Catastrophic Crash of the Camera Market”
“Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed — Smashing Magazine”
I have to use a lot of Google products because of work and over the past few years they’ve gone from having incoherent and unpleasant designs to having coherent and unpleasant designs.
“Opinion - Britney Spears and I Learned the Same Lesson About Fame - The New York Times”
“Introducing State Partitioning - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
I would love to see somebody do an in-depth comparison between Mozilla’s and Safari’s approaches to partitioning state.
Collaborating with robots
“Nothing is real vs everything is real (Interconnected)”
“Machine learning is your collaborator” has been the default for photography for a while now. Even if you don’t use an iPhone most photo processing apps use machine learning somewhere to offer useful features.
It’s only a matter of time until we figure out how to offer useful features based on machine learning in our writing tools.
“The Benefits Of Code Review For The Reviewer - otsukare”
Building a better understanding of the project as a whole and an internal “project theory” is a big reason why I love code reviews. Otherwise it’s too easy to lose track of what’s going on.