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Your fast, my slow
Do you ever wonder if some end-user is sitting at their desk right now, eye twitching spasmodically while a screen you helped write takes 30 seconds to load, cursing your name and the names of your children for all eternity?
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The first website is still online (again)
Did you know the very first website ever is available online, just as it was 30 years ago? Before google, yahoo, geocities, there it was - a few static pages linking to the entirety of the Internet at the time....
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Buying, building, and something in between
It's good to push yourself to learn more, to try something new even knowing you might fail. On the other hand, there's a wisdom in accepting that someone else already honed the skills we're after, and take advantage of that. And maybe there's something in between - a best of both worlds....
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Weekend Review #1
The course of our lives seem to follow Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. When we sit back and think about where life is going, momentum ceases. And when we commit to a choice, we don't care where we're standing but just speed off in the next direction. And I haven't even had a beer yet....
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Keep the plumbing out of my living room
When it comes to writing software and deciding where to store files, Windows sets certain areas of the system aside and makes them easily discoverable. Some developers don't care. Don't be that developer....
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When being connected is not
Nearly a century ago, Norman Rockwell captured an aspect of human nature that's probably been around since the first time a caveman found some gossip etched into a cave wall. In one frame, we see our drive to be "in the know", our fear of missing out, and how ridiculous it looks from the outside....
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The unappreciated gift of maintenance
The new captivates and excites us, but it's maintaining the old that requires (and creates) in us true appreciation and wisdom, as well as a discerning eye and clever mind....
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10 corporate sites from the 90s that your gram could've made
25 years ago, one site design was as bad as the next, and the bar was at an all-time low. I dug a few sites up on the Wayback Machine ... let's poke fun at the 90's!...
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