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Build Your Career on Dirty Work | Stay SaaSy

staysaasy.com/career/2022/09/11/Dirty-Work.html
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.

What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/long-covid-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

My Five Biggest Design System Mistakes | by Steve Dennis | Sep, 2022 | Medium

medium.com/@subcide/my-five-biggest-design-system-mistakes-4725859926c2
A lot of design system articles focus on the ideal or best ways to approach certain problems. There’s a lot less written on what doesn’t work, and what was learned from it. Our design system team has…

Why public chats are better than direct messages - Teamplify blog

teamplify.com/blog/why-public-chats-are-better-than-direct-messages/
As a result, when you send a direct message, you distract your colleague, but when you post a message in a group chat, you don't distract them (unless you mention someone explicitly via @). From our experience, the vast majority of work questions are not so urgent that they require an immediate response. Most topics can be discussed asynchronously – you post a question when you have time, and your teammates will respond when they have time. It greatly helps to minimize distractions,...

Accessibility Not-Checklist | Brewed by team Intopia

not-checklist.intopia.digital/
The Accessibility Not-Checklist acts as a guide to make sure you haven’t missed anything. If you’re new to accessibility, the resource provides a foundation – it’s an overview of what you’ll need to consider, but it won’t teach you WCAG from front to back.

Official myths | A Working Library

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/official-myths
Let’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.

Histogram vs eCDF - Marc's Blog

brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.html
It's trivial to transform an eCDF into a histogram, by bucketing up first differences (fn+1 - fn). You can't go from the histogram to the eCDF so easily in general, because bucketing loses data.

The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.

In-App Subscriptions Made Easy – RevenueCat

revenuecat.com/
RevenueCat makes it easy to build, analyze, and grow in-app purchases and subscriptions on iOS, Android, and the web – no server code required. Get started for free.

Code: Falsehoods programmers believe about email

beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.