Links from 2018

Technology heroes are always difficult subject. As an engineering manager, I remember the first time I participated in a “life boat” drill where you have to…

Hopefully Useful Techniques for Git Rebase ByEthan Rowe August 20, 2010 I recently had to spend a few hours merging Git branches to get a development branch in…

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos Illustrations by Ella Trujillo It…

Our specialty is securing mortgages for contractors and freelancers based on contract earnings alone. Not take-home pay. Not payslips. Not accounts. Your…

Given public sector engagers’ tendency to take a risk-averse approach when determining their contractors’ IR35 status , it is vital that independent workers…

If you're building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical . For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live…

This blog post explains the so-called TC39 process , which governs how ECMAScript features are designed, starting with ECMAScript 2016 (ES7). Related blog…

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Gled tae meet ye. Aïda Amer (animation); thistle (shutterstock) Over the past few decades, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental…

Max Guther ChuChu TV, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story. Vinoth Chandar,…

Fig 1: Suze Orman’s opinion of our lifestyle, as captured in a crazy interview on Paula Pant’s Afford Anything podcast. In case you hadn’t already noticed it in…

Key takeaways GDS are trying to transform the UK government, to become digital-by-default GDS philosophy puts users first, with a focus on agile principles and…

Citizens can get the information and services they need more quickly because users' needs are considered in government service design, and suppliers can work…

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in…

Get a free pack of "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" stickers It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson In the UK,…

For the last decade, Tim Hecker has been on a quest to unite musician and machine, to blur the border between the sources of his sounds and the output he…

It is the principle that bad news tends to accrue at a lower management level, because no one wants to be the person who moves a project risk marker from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’ on a RAG chart. As a result, pessimism and a belief that the project will overrun ‘bubbles up’ to a certain decision-making level but never beyond, as if hitting the thermal layer that exists in the ocean. Eventually, the issues reach critical mass and force their way through, leaving senior management wonder why everything ‘suddenly’ went wrong, when in fact the signs that the project was troubled existed at a lower level for some time.

Introduction react-from-markup lets you declare React components using simple, static markup. Why? Sometimes, your tech stack doesn’t speak JavaScript very…

We use a bunch of Zeit’s tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com — we’re hiring!), and they’re consistently…

Category: You Asked For It Alright, let’s try something new for this week’s reader question. As regular readers know, I do a “you asked for it” column where I…

In the era of budget airlines, are last minute flights dead? Not if you know how, when, and where to look... Here's some tried and tested tips on how to bag a…

Lucky me (29, Software Engineer from Berlin, Germany) recently got a new job as a Lead Architect for a startup. Now I’d say I’m not a bad engineer, but I’ve…

In 8 easy steps “A barista pouring coffee into a mug that says ugh on it at Bar Nine” by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No,…

A new kind of social network There’s a new social network in town. It’s called Mastodon . You might have even heard of it. On the surface, Mastodon feels a lot…

Promethease is a literature retrieval system that builds a personal DNA report based on connecting a file of DNA genotypes to the scientific findings cited in SNPedia.

Raise your hands if you love the notch on iPhone X, XS, XR or XS Max! Okay, not many hands went up there, but I’m sure as a developer you do love some extra…

‘Design & Code’ is a series about design and engineering experiments, processes, and learnings, brought to you by the AirSwap team. At AirSwap, we have an…

We Respect Code APIs. But What About Color, Type and Space? #4 of 6 of the series Releasing Design Systems: Outputs | Cadence | Versioning | Breaking |…

The Tale of Two Gardens O nce upon a time there lived two gardeners. Each was hired by the City Director to plant a garden for the city. The first gardener…

I want Feedbin to be the opposite of Big Social. I think people should have the right not to be tracked on the Internet and Feedbin can help facilitate that.…

TL;DR : we cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now “normal” and expect the web to flourish. At the same time, most developers experience no…

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Noctiluxx/Getty Images When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been…

Nearly a year ago we agreed on our design principles at Bulb . Ever since then, they have guided the way we work. This includes: Having shared principles helped…

The Font Loading Checklist 30 Aug 2018 Zach Leatherman 3 min read When I look back at the last four years that I’ve spent learning everything I could about web…

I made a poll on Twitter the other day asking the #lazyweb how they would mark up an FAQ section — or a list of questions and their corresponding answers. I…

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September 01, 2018 I've been working on TypeScript for over two years now(!) so I thoughtI'd write a post or two to reflect. I should open with the…

Crossing boundaries … Tilda Swinton in the 1992 film adaptation of Orlando. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West were…

Carl Jensen experienced what he calls “the awakening” sometime around 2012. He was a software engineer in a suburb of Denver, writing code for a medical device.…

Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters When Marsha Richins started researching materialism in the early 1990s, it was a subject that had mostly been left to philosophers…

This in-depth LEGO Storage Guide helps you understand your LEGO collection, find the best way to organize your LEGO bricks, and discover the best LEGO storage…

Advice for a new executive Originally posted Aug 30, 2018 When I was getting ready to join Kickstarter as VP of Engineering, Chad Dickerson (who was the CEO of…