Dave Winer: I announced here on Scripting News that the final RSS 2.0 spec was out. But! — no one had a problem with it. I guess we were ready to go to the next stage, with a clear way forward. And RSS would go on to eat the world, to steal a phrase from a well-known tech pioneer. I started …
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Dan McKinley: The problem with “best tool for the job” thinking is that it takes a myopic view of the words “best” and “job.” Your job is keeping the company in business, god damn it. And the “best” tool is the one that occupies the “least worst” position for as many of your problems as …
Leadership is a Privilege
You shouldn’t be leading if: Leading is not for everyone, and that’s fine. Not everyone should be leading, especially if they only want to advance their careers. I believe that leading is a vocation parallel to being an individual contributor. It doesn’t make one role “better” or “worse.” They are just different and equally important. …
Deleting Cookies and Data
Safari for iOS 13 introduced a cool feature that closes tabs automatically for users after a day, week, or month. When helping non-technical users with their phones, I tend to enable this feature which they appreciate since most have hundreds of tabs open at a given time – some admit to even doing the closing …
eBooks are being held back
Howard Oakley: […] few eBooks offer any advantage in use over their physical equivalents. eBook readers are still incredibly primitive, and won’t even let you refer to two or more sections of the book at the same time. You can’t photocopy them, copy quotations, or do anything remotely advantageous. What should have been a liberation …
Wi-Fi 6’s Claims Are Real
In tech, it’s hard to discern marketing buzz from factual data. After struggling for months to get a reliable Wi-Fi performance at home through the use of different equipment, software optimization, setting tweaking, etc., all problems went away with a single device: Amplifi Alien with support for Wi-Fi 6. Here’s a good review of the …
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Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby →
David Heinemeier Hansson: Everything I’ve talked about so far is infrastructure we’d run and pay for regardless of our programming language or web framework. Whether we run on Python, PHP, Rust, Go, C++, or whatever, we’d still need databases, we’d still need search, we’d still need to store files. So let’s talk about what we …
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Your Deadline Will Be Affected
Cleanup takes time. No matter if it is refactoring, fixing bugs, updating supporting libraries, adding the proper documentation, or test coverage to your code. There is no way around this. It will affect your deadlines today or sometime down the road. The difference is that today, it’s your choice to make. Thinking that you get …
When did work-life balance become such a bad thing? →
DHH: The term work-life balance has taken a beating lately. It seems to be a favorite punching bag for grandstanding about what you really need is integration or that balance is a mirage anyway. Wat? Balance simple means that each portion of the system has a sustainable weight which keeps the composition in harmony. Going …
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