“A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho”
This works more often than you’d think.
“There’s No Such Thing As “Agile”. There’s Just Software Development. – Codemanship’s Blog”
“Managing focus in the shadow DOM - Read the Tea Leaves”
I’ve run into focus issues every single time I’ve tried using the shadow DOM and only ever been able to solve them properly by rewriting everything to not use shadow DOMs.
“Anxious feelings about optimisation through complexity (Interconnected)”
On “Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? - Ian Welsh”
I will never get this. School was a miserable experience for me. I did really well but hated every moment. And pretty much everybody I went to school with hated the experience as well. Even disregarding the unusually horrible teachers I had*, the overall school experience still sucked.
But everybody seemed to forget immediately how bad it was—sometimes even on the day of graduation, just before they went to college.
It’s like watching people cognitively spin on a dime. One moment they are complaining about how miserable it is, the next they are filled with nostalgia for ‘an amazing experience’.
It’s almost as if school is a right of passage wholly unconcerned with improving the lives of those participating in it or something.
*: I had at least five teachers who were genuinely evil people and seemed to thrive on the misery of children.
“Progressive Enhancement reading list, draft 1 - QuirksBlog”
“Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
“TBM 6/52: Discontinuous Improvement (and Stored Energy) - The Beautiful Mess”
“Peter Naur: Programming As Theory Building” (PDF)
No joke, reading this paper is fundamentally shifting my thinking about software development. Love it. And not just because he references Feyerabend and Polya
“SOCCR: the framework I use for decision briefs - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
“On weather, winter, and changing climates – Going Medieval”
“We are sleepwalking away from the world that existed for thousands of years”
“Change has become an excuse for lazy design - Gerry McGovern”
“We must design things on the basis that we want them to last, rather than we expect them to change”
Ira Glass on the role of taste in creating stories. This is why IMO good software is proportionally rarer than, say, a good book or a good movie. Almost everybody involved in software has lousy taste in software.