“The Tools Don’t Matter: Why are product managers so obsessed with tools?”
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“The Tools Don’t Matter: Why are product managers so obsessed with tools?”
I’m unironically a Björk fan and echo her disappointment with our current Prime Minister.
“The web is a harsh manager - daverupert.com”
“I’d argue for a “CSS Engineer” title, someone who knows the ins-and-outs of good CSS architecture that can save your app thousands of lines of code”
“Does Bionic Reading actually work? We timed over 2,000 readers and the results might surprise you”
“In fact, participants read 2.6 words per minute slower on average with Bionic Reading than without”
Not surprised.
So, what are the odds that node vs deno vs bun is going to play out along the old “familiarity trumps correctness or even reliability” dynamic?
I’m guessing that if the health effects of leaded petrol were just being discovered today, our current lot of politicians would add a ‘lead tax’ or ‘lead pricing’ to use ‘market forces’ to regulate it instead of, y’know, just actually legislating the fuck out of the problem
Perennially relevant to software dev:
‘I’m so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let’s call it the “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers” model, or “CADT” for short’
“Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
Lot of poorly founded assumptions in this but it’s an insight into the tech view on AI content creation: it’s gonna replace all social media content
“Daring Fireball: The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13”
Appreciate Apple doing the hard work of making native apps look bad so the web-based stuff I know how to make looks good in comparison
Not quite sure what I think about this.
I’m trying to figure out whether markdown or HTML should be the primary notes format for Colophon Cards. Either can be done in an interesting way. I’ve prototyped both. Both have great interoperability, tho markdown has a more notes-oriented ecosystem.
According to the authorities 17 people needed assistance from rescue squads yesterday at the eruption site. The causes were a mix of exhaustion and injury. Again, quite a few families with children under the age of 12 needed to be turned away.
“10 Observations on Tragedy in a Digital Age - by Ted Gioia”
“the tragic protagonists of our own time would never view themselves as such, believing instead that they are heroes”
18 people needed assistance from rescue teams at the eruption site yesterday according to the authorities. Around 5000 visited.
Several families had to be turned away as they were planning to take children under the age of 12 on a 14km hike to an active volcanic eruption site
“Breaking apart the monolith · GitHub”
Interesting outline of the problem. It kind of glosses over the fact that to get enough contributors to solve these problems, you kinda really need more money.
That thing where you read an ‘influencer’ see the exact same situation as you, outline exactly the reasoning you would have, but come to the opposite conclusion as a non-sequitur at the tail-end of the post.
Why did I just read that?
“Adactio: Journal—Democratising dev”
People keep assuming there is no middle ground between no automation and full automation. But I think that Flash and even Director managed to strike a nice balance there for a while