This post was going to be about technical interviews, and how they're broken in our industry. Broken, unhelpful, considered harmful, in some obvious and not so obvious ways. But that's not what this

Note: This was originally posted as a comment on Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming A friend sent me your article, and I had replied to him with this, telling him what I think (he

I recently started listening to the audio book Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, and it has been very good. There are

Reacts quickly, and decisively. Has a leadership philosophy. Has thought about it, a lot. Can speak at length about it. Is passionate about engineering. Is passoniate about management. Understands the intersection of the

And Then There Was the GIF The Internet would be nowhere without the GIF. Entire sites, whole server farms, are dedicated to serving you the perfect GIF. They make everyone happy. or sad.

This is why I believe the Unix philosophy is inherently right: programs shouldn’t be vague, squishy things that grow in scope over time and are never really finished. A program should do

Drift is both a state and a time. The high volume of information consumption has forced my brain into high gear to process and analyze it. Analysis is the catalyst that opens the

Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Dick Guindon

Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once. — Drew Houston

It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. — Jonathan Ive

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan

Zach Holman, on his blog: Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious

I'm a heavy user of TestFlight. Both personally, and in my day job. The news of TestFlight's parent company Burstly suddenly being bought by Apple is intriguing as it is worrisome. You can

This disparity is astonishing. And I’m not alone in my experience. Increasingly, creative minds are torn in two opposing directions. We’re asked to apply our intellectual capital to solve hard problems—

I loved Jekyll. But Octopress is my new best friend. Will be giving this a try for awhile. I'll definitely be creating a new theme soon, but for now I'll be sporting the

I want news that admits and defends its point of view (and acknowledges that there is a truth to be uncovered), not news that parrots the party line while making claims to objectivity.

We can tell the stories we want to tell and say the things we need to say. We can do better. We can be better. — Frank Chimero - Velocity

When it arrived the web seemed to fill all of those niches at once.The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that

We are in a wait-and-see, try-it-and-see phase of publishing and the web—past the initial Web 2.0 euphoria and into the hard business of creating great stuff (and finding new ways to

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this

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