“There’s method in the madness.”
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“There’s method in the madness.”
Whole thing is great.
“There’s method in the madness.”
Whole thing is great.
The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang: At Fast Co.Design.
Kind of funny; kind of pathetic?
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) — Medium:
Erik D. Kennedy:
This is the Krav Maga of screens.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you’re one of those folks that tends to think that great design only comes from this small subset of “talented” people. Nope: there are a few basic rules, and you can learn them. (And here’s part two.)
“The boring designer chases the right idea over their idea every time. They respect their team and will try almost any idea (whether on a whiteboard or in Sketch or in code) that gets thrown their way. Instead of arguing about whose idea should win, the boring designer tries all the ideas and even elevates others’ ideas in the process. The boring designer abhors groupthink and being told “yes.” They consistently request feedback and new ideas. And as a result when they feel super passionately about their own idea, the team listens.”
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Cap Watkins, The Boring Designer
So many of these points translate (or apply directly) to lots of other leadership roles, technical or otherwise.
JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server August Lilleaas takes a look at using Java 8's Nashorn JavaScript engine to do some server-side rendering tricks with React components. (Bonus points for using Clojure, August…) While there are literally an infinite number of ways to solve some of the problems he's talking […]
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The Parable of Mustache.js Jan Lehnardt: He praised though, that they were able to build a compatible implementation that could compete on its own merits while still being compatible with a spec and he said that all library development should be done that way. Too often we conflate a great idea with its implementation and […]
Decoupling Your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Philip Walton: Almost every type of coupling between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be lessened with an appropriate use of classes and a predictable class naming convention. Long read, but he has lots of good points. And as he points out, a lot of these are easy (and tempting) […]
Haruki Murakami and the Art of Japanese Translations Roland Kelts, writing for The New Yorker: Rubin said that the first time he translated a Murakami novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, he phoned the author several times a day to nail word choices and correct inconsistencies. “In one scene, a character had black-framed glasses. In another, […]
The Myth of America’s Tech-Talent Shortage Jordan Weissmann writing for The Atlantic. And/but what I want to know is: Who are these companies that are clamoring to hire people on an H1-B because it's supposedly cheaper? The "indentured labor" line reads like a bit of a boogeyman to me, and though I'll buy the bit […]