css-tricks.comThe Great Divide
Two front-end developers are sitting at a bar. They have nothing to talk about. Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it's not just in my bones.
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gizmodo.comI Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible
Goodbye Big FiveReporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. Week 1: Amazon Apparently, I am a masochist.
www.nytimes.comWilly Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Is this the indulgence of an oddball founder, or a better way to run an I.T. company?
www.nytimes.comThe Insulin Wars
How insurance companies farm out their dirty work to doctors and patients. Dr. Ofri practices at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
www.reddit.comMost of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
Askreddit has about 15m uniques, and 500,000 unique commenters. The following all have about 100k unique commenters and the following uniques: /r/leagueoflegends 8m, /r/worldnews 6m, /r/news 6m, /r/movies 5m, /r/adviceanimals 3m, /r/gifs stats not public.
css-tricks.comAuto-Sizing Columns in CSS Grid: `auto-fill` vs `auto-fit`
Twitter Facebook .grid { display: grid; /* define the number of grid columns */ grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); } grid-template-columns: repeat( 12, minmax(250px, 1fr) ); grid-template-columns: repeat( auto-fit, minmax(250px, 1fr) ); .
www.theverge.comTwitter’s CEO keeps substituting talking for doing
The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy. Subscribe to the newsletter here. Jack Dorsey is talking.
queue.acm.orgDesign Patterns for Managing Up
Have you ever been in a situation where you are presenting to your manager or your manager's manager and you completely flub the opportunity by saying all the wrong things? Me too. It is from such encounters that I started to put together design patterns for handling these difficult situations.
www.annashipman.co.ukFinding the next level tech job
Last April, I joined the Financial Times as Technical Director for FT.com. This has been a brilliant move. The job search was different from any of my previous job searches, as it involved an explicit step into technical leadership, and here I share how I did it and some things I learned.
stratechery.comNetflix Flexes
Bird Box, the Netflix original film, started streaming on December 21 while I was on vacation.1 That perhaps explains why the majority of my exposure to the Netflix Original came via NBA Twitter — and most of that exposure had absolutely nothing to do with the film, at least not directly.
www.toptal.comVital Concepts for Modern JS Developers
Using Binary and Ternary Operators to Increase Readability and Reduce Your Code There are many developers who have a year or two of experience and ask themselves the following: How do I become a better developer? How do I go from being a middle- or beginner-level developer to the next level? The key
www.wired.comI Knew Facebook Was Doomed After a Dinner with Sheryl Sandberg
To recap: Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook as chief operating officer in 2008, promising to make the popular but weird social network profitable. She went hard into advertising, marketing, and data-mining—and, by 2010, Facebook was going great guns. It’s been well in the black ever since.
blog.louisnicholls.comSales > Marketing
Well hang on. If you’re in that situation then you’ve already made a big mistake. There’s only one way to make sure you’re building something people will pay for. And that’s to talk to customers and make sales before (and while) building!
postlight.comPersonal Finance Apps Should Be Way Better — Postlight — Digital product studio
Thirty-six years ago, just a couple of years after the spreadsheet, the first major consumer personal finance app was released for MS-DOS and the Apple II. It was called Quicken. Back then, computers were just starting to get personal, and not much is more personal than your money.
www.nytimes.comThe Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite
DAVOS, Switzerland — They’ll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible. I know this because, for the past week, I’ve been mingling with corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
www.theatlantic.comI Failed the Covington Catholic Test
Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March.
hackernoon.comWhy your Tech interview process may be flawed ?
I’ve had discussions with many friends about a few of their experiences in technical face-to-face interviews. Some went well, some went bad, and some were just outright ridiculous. You see, sometimes an interview goes wrong, and it’s not always the fault of the candidate.
mxstbr.comTech Choices I Regret at Spectrum
? I am Max, the technical co-founder of Spectrum. Spectrum is an open source chat app for large online communities and was recently acquired by GitHub. We are a team of three with a predominantly frontend and design background and have worked on it for close to two years.
stratechery.comMore on Apple and China (and Podcasts!), Apple and Duck Duck Go, WordPress Newspack
Stratechery.com is supported by subscriptions to the Daily Update. The Daily Update consists of substantial analysis of the news of the day (~1800 words) delivered via three daily emails in addition to the free weekly article (four total articles per week).
stratechery.comSatya Nadella on Microsoft
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stratechery.comNetflix Follow-up, Bill Simmons Interviews Jack Dorsey, Twitter and the Pollyannish Assumption
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stratechery.comChina Blocks Bing; Tencent, China, and Apple; Atlassian’s Earnings
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www.theverge.com‘Flexgate’ might be Apple’s next MacBook Pro problem
Apple might be in for another MacBook Pro hardware controversy. A report from iFixit highlights an issue with the laptop’s backlights failing, causing the lighting at the bottom of the screen to appear spotted and uneven. An enterprising user has already dubbed the problem “flexgate.”
www.bbc.comWhatsApp restricts message-sharing to fight fake news
WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform. The Facebook-owned business had already six months ago.
news.artnet.comWho Needs Assistants When You Have Robots? Jeff Koons Lays Off Dozens in a Move Toward a Decentralized, Automated Studio Practice
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jezebel.comMichelle Obama On Lean In: 'That Shit Doesn't Work All the Time'
In a December 1 appearance at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to promote her new book, Becoming, Michelle Obama said what we’ve all been thinking about the concept of having it all: it’s a great big lie.
www.bbc.comMet Office issues ice warning as snow hits UK
The Met Office issued a yellow warning for likely low level disruption, valid until 11:00 GMT on Wednesday. Motorists are being warned to be extra careful of hazardous driving conditions.
stratechery.comExponent Podcast: Inverted Pyramids
On Exponent, the weekly podcast I host with James Allworth, we discuss AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source. Listen to it here.
www.wsj.comHow Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings
Employers flood the ranking site with 5-star postings requested from enthusiastic staffers, leading to unusual spikes, a WSJ investigation found