“The Decision Diamond: a simple and effective prioritisation technique - Joe Leech”
“6 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Demand When Designing UX - by Alexander Rådahl - May, 2021 - UX Planet”
“Pixels of the Week – July 4, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
“The amorality of Web 2.0 - ROUGH TYPE”
This 2005 blog post by Nicholas Carr looks pretty prescient in hindsight, no?
“Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet”
“The truth is that we totally have screwed over younger generations”
“Bruce Lawson’s personal site : prefers-reduced-motion and browser defaults”
“My theory on why advertising is so terrible – Terence Eden’s Blog”
“Remote Work Is Always Efficient But Efficient Isn’t Always Effective – Paul Taylor”
“Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
“Back to the Bad Old Days of the Web – Jorge Arango”
Google is as bad a steward of the web as Microsoft was, albeit for different reasons (advertising dominance instead of desktop dominance).
“Long passwords don’t cause denial of service when using proper hash functions”
“The hidden costs of software inventory”
“Controlling software inventory is a business opportunity, not an internal engineering discussion.”
“Reinventing the Fiery Wheel – Running In Production With Scissors”
This company is the dark heart of Iceland’s pervasive political corruption.
One reason why I bounce off a lot of projects and services are poor docs. The most common culprit is the author not realising that the reader knows nothing about their project.
Like, most serverside frameworks leave at least one step in how to set up auth completely undocumented
GitHub Copilot adds several new wrinkles to the question whether you should open source code and put it on GitHub. If your project is addressing a specialised domain, will Copilot all of a sudden commodify your specialised work as reusable autocompletes without attribution?
“App Platform on Digital Ocean - CSS-Tricks”
I tested this at my last job with the intent to turn it into our primary deployment target. Worked really well but the project kind of ran out of steam before we could switch properly.
“Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media”
This would explain why creating an in-group and an out-group and then driving animosity towards the out-group has become the go-to marketing strategy in tech and dev.
“Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment”
Anne Trubek observes that book prices have failed to keep up with inflation causing a deflation in prices. This is one of the many reasons why author royalties have collapsed over the decades.