Articles
The Sad State of Web App Deployment
13 October 2015
Eevee: “We’ve been doing this for 20 years. We should have this by now. It should work, it should be pluggable and agnostic, and it should do everything right. […] Instead, we stack layer after layer of additional convoluted crap on top of what we’ve already got because we don’t know how to fix it.” → Read More
Compilation by a Thousand Semicolons and Commas
27 September 2015
Something I like in most modern programming languages is that they tend to ditch semicolons completely — semicolons are a nuisance, a waste of time, a source of (easily fixable) errors, ugly and unnecessary. → Read More
What Makes an Indie Hit?
18 September 2015 → Read More
Quantum Post-Mortem
15 September 2015
Eric Zimmerman: “My goal was that every card should feel incredibly powerful – a potential game winner in the right situation. I loved seeing my playtesters' faces grow greedy as they read the cards, astonished at how good the powers seemed to be.” → Read More
The Rule of Two
09 September 2015
CGP Grey: “The rule of two is that two is one — and one is none.” → Read More
Dead or Finished Libraries?
21 August 2015
Mark Jason Dominus: “People seem to think that all software requires new features or frequent bug fixes. Apparently, the idea of software that doesn't get updated because it's finished is inconceivable.” → Read More
The Web, the Ads and the Ad-Blockers
11 June 2015 → Read More
Force Touch Affordance
08 June 2015
Force Touch is not discoverable. → Read More
Space Odyssey
26 April 2015
I've finally convinced myself to watch “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Quick review and analysis. → Read More