Reduce Friction – Ceejbot's notes
blog.ceejbot.com/posts/reduce-friction/This internet thing seems to have taken off.
How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
lucasfcosta.com/2022/07/19/finish-what-you-start.htmlLet’s be honest. When you read this post’s title, you thought it was obvious. Yet, most people don’t follow this simple piece of advice. You know that too, a...
UX patterns for CLI tools
lucasfcosta.com/2022/06/01/ux-patterns-cli-tools.htmlMost technical people choose GUIs not because GUIs are the best tool for the job. People choose GUIs because the CLI alternatives usually suck.
About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why? - Vox
vox.com/future-perfect/2022/6/1/23138463/how-the-world-became-rich-industrial-revolution-koyama-rubinTwo economic historians explain what made the Industrial Revolution, and modern life, possible.
Aspect — Build UI, fast
dev.aspect.app/Web site created using create-react-app
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-9q25taswlbzjc5rsufndeu0py/What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?
Pikuma: Isometric Projection in Game Development
pikuma.com/blog/isometric-projection-in-gamesIsometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.
Normalization of deviance
danluu.com/wat/At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...
Bulletproof Font Tester
bulletproof.italic.space/sentencesTest your local fonts with a proofing tool developed for type designers. Check kerning, OpenType features, and language coverage. Variable fonts supported.
Stay alert - DEV Community
dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-dA short while ago, Chrome broke the web by disabling alert(), confirm() and prompt() dialogs from... Tagged with javascript.
My Heroku values
gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687294My Heroku values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Always be quitting - jmmv.dev
jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.htmlA good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.
5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean
iainbean.com/posts/2021/5-steps-to-faster-web-fonts/Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT
Screen Sizes
screensizes.app/A complete guide for Apple displays
Tiny Wins
joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wins/The big benefits of little changes.
136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling – Baldur Bjarnason
baldurbjarnason.com/2021/100-things-every-web-developer-should-know/Everything I’ve learned about web development in the almost twenty-five years I’ve been practising. All boiled down into a neat little list that I put together over a week. I’m Icelandic, so I’m prone to absolute statements. It’s a cultural thing. No, I’m not going to explain any of these. There are exceptions to most rules. Web development becomes more complicated the more you pull it apart and less so the more you step back.
Maslow's pyramid of code review | dein.fr
dein.fr/2015-02-18-maslows-pyramid-of-code-review.htmlMaslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.
Those pesky pull request reviews – Jessitron
jessitron.com/2021/03/27/those-pesky-pull-request-reviews/No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than "people aren't following the process"