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Love, Happiness, and Time
971 words | 3 minutes | Monday 6pm | Favourited
How many of us regard love and happiness as a place? A box to tick off, a destination we get to? We often conceptualize these two things as goals. Is this responsible for why we are so devastated when they leave after being in our lives for a while?
medium.com
Ambiguity and design
482 words | 1 minute | Monday 6pm | Favourited
Ambiguity is a key part of design. It points us to the uncomfortable gap between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’ which is where I believe design adds most value.
www.heydonworks.com
Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack
1,026 words | 3 minutes | Wednesday 8am
Much of my career as a web designer has been spent, quite happily, working alongside programmers, engineers, people with computer science degrees. In this symbiotic relationship, each party has a secure job with a well-defined role, and gets to work on the thing they are best at and enjoy the most.
www.nytimes.com
The Maternal Grandparent Advantage
1,024 words | 3 minutes | Tuesday 7am
When I arrive at my daughter and son-in-law’s Brooklyn apartment on Thursdays, my 18-month-old granddaughter hurtles toward me with her still lurch-y gait, happy for our weekly date.
www.hanselman.com
On Developer Advocacy
457 words | 1 minute | Monday 6pm
Naming things is hard. I've talked before about the term "evangelism" and my dislike for it. Evangelism, Advocacy, Developer Relations, PR, Marketing, and on and on. More and more I'm just trying to educate and maybe entertain a little. So I like Edutainment, myself, hat tip to KRS-One.
www.hanselman.com
On Developer Advocacy
457 words | 1 minute | Monday 6pm
Naming things is hard. I've talked before about the term "evangelism" and my dislike for it. Evangelism, Advocacy, Developer Relations, PR, Marketing, and on and on. More and more I'm just trying to educate and maybe entertain a little. So I like Edutainment, myself, hat tip to KRS-One.
www.bristol247.com
New parking app to launch in Bristol
243 words | 1 minute | Monday 6pm
Bristol has been chosen as the first city in the world to trial a new parking app that hopes to reduce congestion with the help of real-time crowdsourced data.