1) Work on a bunch of different things (diversify)
2) Write about what you work on/find interesting/have problems with etc. (communication)
3) Don’t be a dick (empathy) twitter.com/reddit_progr/status/…

📢 I just published a new article where I do a deep dive into improving website performance with a technique I’m calling Idle Until Urgent. ⚡

If you’re looking for some advanced performance techniques that you can use today, this article is for you!

philipwalton.com/articles/idle-u… t.co/JHvIle7gik

@fugularity

How Blockbuster, Kodak And Xerox Really Failed (It’s Not What You Think)

inc.com/greg-satell/pundits-love… via @Inc

Someone made a font that looks like Times New Roman but is *ever so slightly wider* to make term papers stretch out. Good work, America buzzfeednews.com/article/katieno…

🥇 And the award for WORST microcopy goes to…

#badcopy #badUX #microcopy

i just downloaded this 90s cdrom called ‘gifs galore’ and honestly highly recommended archive.org/details/GifsGalore_A… t.co/ATPXL04lLF

New article: Software Disenchantment. Today’s software and software practices suck. It’s on us, engineers, to step up and do better tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

I called it 6 years ago…

@round The largest this image ever gets on a retina screen is 1506px wide.

2022: iPhone X-IV [s] Max Pro Huge Anniversary Edition Siri Steve

#AppleEvent

iPhone Xs Max looks weird since “Xs” looks like extra small which is the opposite of “Max” #AppleEvent

These new iPhone names are so bad. #AppleEvent

Gonna try streaming the #AppleEvent on Twitter today. They did a good job with the NFL live streaming. Let’s see if they can pull this off.

twitter.com/i/events/10294854582…

Turns out Google does a two-pass indexing and the first pass doesn’t run JavaScript. That’s kind of a big deal.
twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/1…

@daljo628

I found this sweet article on Frontpage 98 and guess what it has in it… DESIGN SYSTEMS!~ lolololo #oldgold telecommander.com/pics/links/app… t.co/4hDyeakYBU

The website where I pay my quarterly water & sewer bill lets you pick an avatar for some reason.

I love working on backend code… but its really anticlimactic when something works.

Like…
“OMG I SEE THIS ONE WORD POP UP IN THE LOGS / RESPONSE. I’VE BEEN WORKING TO THIS ONE WORD FOR TWO WEEKS. HURRAY!”

And video of the talk: wordpress.tv/2018/08/23/russell-…