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Consistency alone can produce consistently poor outcomes without flexibility. If the system is too strict, teams are constrained and the results are rigid and dull.

It’s not currently possible for one account to own multiple repositories in the same network.

Oh, right.

32. One hour of prep per one minute of talk

One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of defining software designs through design docs. These are relatively informal documents that the primary author or authors of a software system or application create before they embark on the coding project. The design doc documents the high level implementation strategy and key design decisions with emphasis on the trade-offs that were considered during those decisions.

Somehow I missed this first time around.

An attempt at modifying the original "skateboard to car" agile analogy to not require additional context.

Back in the 1920s, Lippmann might have agreed with much of this. He saw objectivity not as a magical state of mind or a view from nowhere, but as a practical process. Journalism should aim for “a common intellectual method and a common area of valid fact”, he wrote. That does not mean using euphemisms in place of plain language, or parroting both sides of an argument without testing them. Indeed, when journalism has erred in recent years, it has often done so by misinterpreting objectivity, rather than upholding it. The most persuasive calls for moral clarity today articulate something close to Lippmann’s original conception of objectivity.

Much of the emotional suffering in the world comes from the substitution of power for value. The curse of our times is that so many people have developed the habit of seeking to feel temporarily more powerful when they feel devalued. This leads almost inevitably to power struggles and some degree of abuse of others, if acted out, or if held in, to some level of depression.

Our routing algorithm prefers paths that go through parks, forests or by water, and avoids busy roads wherever possible.

Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display

Flipping how we define typography in CSS.

Handy for testing.

Handy for testing.

This is very, very close to the system I've been using for a couple years with Sanebox, MailMate (on Mac) and /Spark (on iOS). So close that now I don't feel the need to get around to writing it up any further :).