Links from 2018

Category: Free Agent Developers , You Asked For It After a couple of weeks doing Reader Question Monday on a Tuesday, I’m back on track. I’ll briefly…

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Like many people my age in this industry (software development, if that was not clear), I remember how things worked before the internet and before agile.…

Menu Cart *NEW* Mugs Build-Your-Own Calendar Custom Card Packs Posters Demotivators Books Cart Home / Products / Meetings $ 20.00 None of us is as dumb as all…

For part 1, see here. Overview of the software components All the software written for this project is in Python. I’m not an expert python programmer, far from…

One of my uncles cursed me with the LEGO bug, when I was 6 he gave me his collection because he was going to university. My uncle and I are relatively close in…

Straight Outta Ams © 2018 JavaScript is an adventure. After almost a decade of both amateur and professional development in various industries, I believe…

React 16.3 added a new Context API – new in the sense that the old context API was a behind-the-scenes feature that most people either didn’t know about, or…

[ Editor’s note : At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee…

On desktop, the carousel has always been a popular way to stick multiple pieces of content on the front page without taking up too much space. On mobile,…

At WWDC 2016, Apple unveiled a brand new font which was called San Francisco . The font went on to become the default font in macOS and iOS, replacing Helvetica…

The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy – Light, Nova Swing, Empty Space M John Harrison All published by Gollancz, £8.99 A place where all the broken rules of the universe…

@Cypress_io Day 2 with Cypress and I'm blown away. Thank you. What an amazing effort. And the new docs are so easy to understand. #superfan — Josh…

In the classic management book High Output Management Andy Grove argues that "training is the manager’s job" because it’s the highest leverage activity a…

Illustration by Ben Wiseman. In the heart of San Francisco, the gig economy reigns supreme. Walk intoa grocery store, and a large number of shoppers you see are…

We at Skillshare embrace change; not because it looks cool in a company’s vision statement, but because it’s necessary. That is the premise behind the recent…

Once upon a time, I tweeted on an urgent matter. “Can somebody tell me how to get better with color?” I wrote ." My color decisions are awful." I got a lot of…

A rooster crows and awakens my family at the farm where we are staying for a long weekend. The air is crisp, and stars twinkle in the sky as the Sun rises over…

W hen you’re on military exercise, sleep is a luxury. Maybe you can only snatch a few hours each day. So there’s nothing so frustrating as lying in your…

Are the British and Scottish identities exclusive? What if you feel a blend of the two, as site member Firebird does? Photograph: David Cheskin/PA Archive/Press…

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