Category: meander
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America 2020
Decades of full spectrum rot exposed to all when “the tide went out” via global pandemic. Banana republic dictator voted down, for now. Relief the majority of people pushed back; inexcusable that so many did not. I will never forget: The lying. The selfishness. The malevolence. The racism. The criminality. The weakness. The cowardice. The…
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America 2019
A culture successfully terrorized on a dark day in September of 2001; initially, in anger but, over the long run (to this day), in fear, throwing off the high ground of nominal “truth, justice, and the American way” for Jack Bauer ends-justify-the-means. A culture particularly prone to disengaging into its own individual, typically violent, often…
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Fail, fast
Adapted from an internal p2 post. Fail-fast is a systems design approach that intentionally fails early and visibly. The gist is that it is better for users as well as better for developers to halt a system if it finds itself in a “critical enough” situation. Wait, What, Why? There are worse things than a…
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Steve Jobs on design
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
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Twitter Is For Tweeters
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic that “Twitter is worthless for the limited purpose of driving traffic to your website”. …Twitter is sending less than 2 percent of its overall engagement back to the web. (Lucky you, I’m going to push this post to Twitter.)
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (opening stanza)
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Switched to Colemak
The "optimizer crowd" I work with has finally ground me down on keyboard layouts. Switching to #colemak for long term ergonomic reasons. — Hew (@hewsut) May 16, 2013 We have over 20 alternative layout keyboardists at Automattic circa this post, including one rather well known one. For three years, I resisted their proselytizing as I…
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