Idempotentise your string sanitizers medium.com/@edongliu/idem…

“How To Use Technical Debt In Your Favor” by Fagner Brack levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-use-tec…

Building the Google Photos Web UI: bit.ly/2NmP9xg — turns out, a "simple" photo grid ain't so simple and a performant grid is no small feat! An awesome under the hood look at the magic behind Google Photos layout.

Instead of asking “Where do you see yourself in five years?” ask “What would you prefer to be doing tomorrow?”

From #releaseit “Sometimes when you ask questions but don’t get answers, it means nobody knows the answer. At other times, though, it means nobody wants to be seen answering the questions. ... And sometimes when you ask too many questions, you get tagged to answer them.”

Morning Monday, time to check who got the time correct in their system. Yes it is yesterday, but we will see the effects this morning.

Conway’s law.

Let's #TalkConcurrency with Sir Tony Hoare dlvr.it/QxP9Fl

If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive inside and you have to get it out into the world for the pure satisfaction of making it happen.

Don’t assume you need a big solution just because you have a big problem. Even that big solution will be built one step at a time. Choose a feedback loop that also operates at the scale of those steps.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." -- John Gall 1/5

A critical process in learning, we do not often realize early, is changing our mind.

When a coder of 40 years fails an interview because he doesn't know what's written on the page, something is wrong. gwan.com/blog/20160405.…

CTO’s Prayer: God, grant me engineers to build the things I can’t buy, budget to buy the things I can’t build, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Wondering what common config/lib/service that #twitter and #GitHub are using and that caused the leaking of user passwords.

'Nervous' parent calls police on Native American teens during college tour trib.al/NDaYR2o

A mom on a college tour called the cops on two Native American teens because they made her 'nervous' “How did [the mom] describe them [to the police]? The ‘quiet ones’?” cnn.com/2018/05/04/us/…

The year is 2042. All communication is in Emoji. Everyone is paid in loot boxes. Electricity is strictly rationed because most of it is consumed by vast server farms calculating blockchains.

Earn or Learn or Move