In software, ‘no’ is temporary, but ‘yes’ is forever.

Would you declare

* {cursor: none;}

No? Then don’t declare

a:focus {outline: none;}

For exactly the same reasons.

📣 PERSONAL NEWS: I was “made redundant” at work today, and am now actively on the job market. If you have a lead on a UX design management role around Boston, or remote, I’m all ears! DM’s open.

UnPHPular Opinion:

! $variable is wrong 99% of the time.

empty( $variable ) is usually what you want.

! is for Boolean comparisons – true/false

empty() is for checking if a variable is non-empty, non-zero, or is not set.

“I fully expect my personal website to outlive Twitter and as such have decided to take full ownership of the content I’ve posted there. In true #IndieWeb fashion, I’m taking ownership of my data.” ✊👏👏👏 twitter.com/zachleat/status/1173…

I’ve hired a few people in my time.

I’ve never been disappointed by hiring someone who is less technical but is a great human who cares for others.

I can teach tech pretty easily.

But boy have I seen people who are strong technical people with toxic attitudes destroy a team.

The Lion King, in all its magnificence, was created in, wait for it… 2k.

Each *frame* in 2k took 100 hours to render. In 4K, that would have been 400 hours, and 800 hours (33 days) for a stereo pair of frames.
I hear no one whining that it wasn’t “sharp enough” in the theater

Someone combined John Bolton with Michael Bolton and I can’t unsee it

Please give me the option to turn off AMP entirely. I never need to be given the AMP version of anything.

Dropbox in 2007 could not have been simpler: it was just a folder. You put files in it, they showed up everywhere else. 2019 Dropbox is a confusing mess of feature bloat waiting to be disrupted by a product that does 90% less stuff. twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status…

Hello friends. I left my contract at PBS NewsHour last week. Looking for contracts in product design, UI/UX, or product marketing.

DMs are open and I’d really appreciate a retweet! 👍

Having kids makes life 10x more difficult but 100x better

Also: this means client side apps are now all server side apps and the thing you use to connect to Mighty is a Browser Browser.

Soon we will add tabs to the Browser Browser. Then we will add Browser Browser Side Scripting. Then Browser Browser frameworks for those scripts. Then

Hey everyone!

While in DC I had a lyft driver who was a scrum master and Oracle dba who was looking for new work. Even from our 20 min ride I could tell he was a great person.

What do you think? Can we find him something?

DM me and I’ll connect you with his resume.

Someone has viewed my LinkedIn profile

This is very nerdy and extremely unfair because I’m sure there must be good reasons for it, BUT:

client-side rendering.

If you are involved in that nonsense in any way then I will judge you.

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I saw a tweet asking why sometimes when you unsubscribe from an email list it says it can ‘take a few days’. Buckle up, as I have a RIDICULOUS story about this happening in The Enterprise™️…

@briankrebs Thanks! Note to self: if I ever turn evil and commit data breach felonies, don’t store the data *checks notes* in my own GitHub account.

Anyone in early for #AEADC want to attend NOVA Code and Coffee at Custom Ink Saturday from 9:00 AM – noon? meetup.com/NoVA-Code-Coffee/even… or DC JS Playday from 1:00 – 4:00 PM at Politico – meetup.com/DC-JavaScript/events/… If you’re staying in Alexandria or Arlington I can drive you.