It really depends on the industry and your personal goals. If you write software for hardware that’s deployed into harsh environments, you will choose your approach wisely and plan for 10+ years ahead. If you write a throwaway app for seed funding—it really doesn’t matter.

This is a remarkable way of reflecting on your workflows and, given a search index, to go back in time.

The plane’s interface is wild. Is every knob actually used and necessary? I guess that what happens when you unpack all UI screens into a knob-based interface.

Tech accounts I’m subscribed for are completely silent on such not at all controversial issue as the recent UN report and genocide in Gaza. They do moralize, do discuss politics, did discuss COVID and expressed lockdown concerns, do discuss Ukraine, but they’re very silent on

“Context composition” might suit better. Using “engineering” everywhere doesn’t necessarily make the practice more rigorous.

In the age of scroll-through media, it feels calmingly rebellious to read in-depth instead. Just pick one link, article, or whatever—and keep digging several levels deep. At least once a day. Without reposting or sharing, it kills the rebellious spirit. Basically, swap

All it takes is to open a book on Java to find out that Pluto is not a planet since 2006. Whatever the way, truth wouldn’t slip.

if apple ever makes a car

The feeling is that if a team has been set up poorly (i.e. with agile misunderstood and wrong values encoded), it’s impossible to change it until the team dies because of corporate inertia. Somewhat similar to a poorly designed system. It performs badly, is misunderstood,

Devs should learn humanities first.

The Medieval Ages 2.0

Moving to folklore once more.

Android Olympic Games would be the first sport event I would love to watch.

I mean, it's the same problem in any domain all the time: books, furniture, clothing, automotive, entertainment, music, movies, education. More people and companies on the market—less of quality stuff. Perhaps, not really "less", but definitely "harder to find". Noise!