This is good advice for a Director of UX by Adrian Howard that generalizes well to any other kind of Director.
Month: January 2020
A long article by Robert Arkwright that uses react server-side rendering as a hook to discuss various scalability issues.
https://arkwright.github.io/scaling-react-server-side-rendering.html
An incredibly sad and beautiful story of a father’s last days.
A bit of near-future fiction about crypto as a subsistence work enterprise.
A nice write-up of how Gitlab diagnosed and fixed an outage before it could even happen.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/08/the-consul-outage-that-never-happened/
Een lang en grondig interview met Cody Hochstenbach over de wooncrisis in Nederland. Studio Tegengif is een favoriete podcast wat een soort Nederlandse versie van The Weeds lijkt te worden.
Daar ook genoemd dit gênante bericht over hoe in Nederland de dakloosheid blijft stijgen, een door en door door de politiek gecreëerd probleem.
Pijnlijk dat het enige kritische interview van FvD in de Gelderlander moet plaatsvinden.
Lekha is a former collaborator who now has this lovely site of her own. Her sense of systems and many skills have always made it a joy to work with her.
I used to know Wytze and the foresight and innovation that he put into the Urban Arrow back in the day (2010) which is still going strong is nothing short of mind-boggling.
“Slack eliminates hierarchy time and space.”
I read this science-fiction short story which is reminiscent of Ann Leckie’s books in how it plays with gender and militarism, but I think this is better.
I listened to the writer of this book explain how the people in the Obama administration thought things would work the same way as they did in The West Wing. Properly hilarious stuff with very serious consequences.
BUILDING A NEW WIN 3.1 APP IN 2019 PART 1: SLACK CLIENT
I have nothing but immense respect for these people who built a Slack client for Windows 3.1, turning retro computing into retro programming.
Chaos at the Top of the World
A breathtaking background story of how the top of Mount Everest turned into a tourist destination.
https://www.gq.com/story/mount-everest-chaos-at-the-top-of-the-world
This profile on C.C. Myers is a good example of leading from the front but even more than that it shows that speed begets speed.
https://www.comstocksmag.com/longreads/cover-worlds-fastest-man
Will I get tired reading these kind of paeans on Finland (in this case their culture of media literacy)? Probably not.
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/
A quick rundown by Github of how to develop quickly on production using feature flags and what benefits that brings.
https://dev.to/mscccc/how-we-use-ship-small-to-rapidly-build-new-features-at-github-5cl9
A government that’s certain to win
I’m not that negative about the Dominic Cummings job ad, because:
- Unlike a lot of people in governments everywhere, he seems to have a clue what he is doing.
- That a person who’s winning would quote Boyd is not a coincidence.
- Using a blog in this way (or Trump tweeting like he does) is the direct e-government that everybody has always been asking for. Not so fun now that we have it, is it?
- Governments and institutions are breaking or already are broken in this age. They do need large scale overhaul.
This is even worse in Germany where the institutions are bigger and the ahistorical denial of reality is immense. It’s going to be really ugly when they go down. - A city like Berlin, that can’t get anything done to save its life, would probably be massively improved by this approach. Our local government here can’t find its own asshole without help from McKinsey. Please somebody do this for Berlin.