a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• the myth of the great idea, there is no such thing as a great idea. there are only great insights. highly recommended
• 10 ways to pretend you know ux (when you don't), while a confident, rational person would admit it when they don't understand something during a conversation, apparently it is much more satisfying to be a douchebag and add your misguided two cents instead
• a remarkably simple way to save time, you simply eliminate one task at a time from your schedule, then evaluate whether doing so had any negative consequences
• the end of coding, teaching more people to code is a great step forward, but a future where few need to is even better
• you are not a software engineer, you do not build skyscrapers. you do not build bridges. you grow gardens. you are a software gardener
• why smart software teams don't need senior developers, tech leads or architects, different people do have different skill sets but one's title can change overnight, while one's skill set obviously does not
• what makes a good programmer good? based on my experiences, being a great programmer has nothing to do with age, education, or how much money you make. it's all in how you act and, more deeply, how you think
• type checking in javascript
• the myth of usability testing
• the science of word recognition, or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bouma
• schnail mail, free real mail for life
• history of the browser user-agent string, hilarious
• why your professors suck, if the problem were just that a few professors happened to be jerks, that would be relatively easy to fix. but the real problem is institutional and structural
• you did a shit job, be tough, be fair, be nice
• the racist tree, by alexander blechman
• sight, short film by eran may-raz and daniel lazo