“Why Literate Programming Might Help You Write Better Code – The New Stack”
Funny how everywhere I turn online, I read articles telling me that I’m not a designer or not a developer, that the methods I use aren’t designing or aren’t development. Today’s iteration is an article saying that I’m not designing because I design in the browser 🤷🏻♂️
“Why Netflix Should Sell Ads – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
Counterpoint: Netflix’s unique content is broadly bargain-basement (narratively speaking) direct to video crap. I’d unsubscribe the day they’d introduce ads
“The Squeaky Blog - Why we don’t use a staging environment”
I know of a few that do this. With feature flags, good test coverage, and continuous integration you can under some circumstances skip a staging env.
“Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
Good advice.
“There’s no way to report spam on Google Drive – Terence Eden’s Blog”
The “good old times” were almost universally awful.
“Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes - DEV Community”
“My guiding principles after 20 years of programming - by Alex Ewerlöf - Medium”
“Semverflation: a new software metric proposal—zachleat.com”
I like it.
“Architecture Decision Records help you, your team, and future teams”
“Understanding Layout Algorithms”
This is a really, really good explanation of CSS’s fundamental behaviour that many miss. If you’re regularly frustrated by CSS, reading this might help.
That thing where services position themselves as NFT/crypto adjacent without actually shipping a crypto product or feature through content marketing. I see what you are doing and it’s sleazy.
“Streaming TV services: stop being as awful as the tech you replaced - Stuff”
Why are these apps so bad?
Some background here. From two years ago but still relevant.
“Russian plugin, go fuck yourself – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
Think this is the third of Heather Burns’ blog posts I’ve posted in a row. At this point I might as well just tell you all to subscribe to her blog.
“Using bound functions to unit test EcmaScript Modules – Aral Balkan”