Senior Engineers Build Consensus
Ryan Lopopolo
‘Building consensus and embedding the idea that engineers would use the change to make good decisions for Stripe turned the four line PR into a self-serve strategic initiative.’
Library
Digital library linking to my favourite content around the web.
Chase McCoy
Looks Good To Me
James Donohue
‘Why do you do code reviews? Perhaps it’s company policy, just an automatic part of your process, but have you ever sat down with your team and asked what everyone hopes to get out of it?’
David Klein
Pedro Duarte
Ray.so
Create beautiful code
Cache-Control for Civilians
Harry Roberts
‘The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all.’
Noah Stokes
30 seconds of code
Angelos Chalaris, Stefan Fejes
Short code snippets for all your development needs
Ryan J. Yost
Moiva.io
Alexey Antipov
Find and compare GitHub and npm packages
BundlePhobia
Shubham Kanodia
Find the cost of adding a npm package to your bundle.
HTML DOM
Nguyen Huu Phuoc
Common tasks of managing HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript
CSS Layout
Nguyen Huu Phuoc
A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS
BGJar
SVG background generator
The web didn't change; you did
Remy Sharp
‘Web development did not change. Web development grew. There are more options now, not different options.’
Human driven decisions
Andreas Eldh
‘We think data will give us the most reliable information, overlooking how misleading numbers can be, and discarding the knowledge that stems from human experience, emotion and intelligence.’
You'll Figure It Out
Andy Weissman
‘(…) give the people who work for you a chance to resolve complex issues on their own.’
Aleksandr Hovhannisyan
Frank Chimero
On Simplicity
Max Böck
‘We assume that complex problems always require complex solutions. We try to solve complexity by inventing tools and technologies to address a problem; but in the process we create another layer of complexity that, in turn, causes its own set of issues.’
I Have No Talent
John Nunemaker
‘What I do have is a lot of practice. (…) The kind of practice where all of a sudden I realize that it is 2am and I’m exhausted physically so I should go to bed, but mentally I feel on fire so I let the code have me for another hour or two.’
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
‘Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?’
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
‘When we have a fact-based worldview, we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems—and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better.’
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield
‘To me, it’s simple: if you’ve got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that’s more important?’
Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
Jeff Atwood
‘I hate software – most of all and especially my own – because I know how hard it is to get it right.’
Chris Coyier
Remy Sharp
On feeling incompetent
Seth Godin
‘First we realize something can be done. Then we realize we can’t do it. And finally, we get better at it.’
Remote work is a platform
Jason Fried
‘The enlightened companies (…) will have discovered that remote work means more autonomy, more trust, more uninterrupted stretches of time, smaller teams, more independent, concurrent work (and less dependent, sequenced work).’
Max Stoiber
1984
George Orwell
‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
Paul Stamatiou
Steven Westmoreland
What Are You Working For?
Jack McDade
‘Do the work to support your family. Do the work if you love it. Do the work to help others. Do enough, well enough, focused enough, so you don’t have to do more.’
The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
Joel Spolsky
‘People who aren’t programmers are just looking at the screen and seeing some pixels. And if the pixels look like they make up a program which does something, they think “oh, gosh, how much harder could it be to make it actually work?“’
What’s Your $1 Billion Idea?
Doug Sundheim
‘The questions that annoy, frustrate, or bother us are our greatest opportunities. They poke us and get under our skin. We’re naturally motivated to solve them.’
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
‘Practice does not make perfect. It is practice, followed by a night of sleep, that leads to perfection.’
Sarah Dayan
Finishing side projects
Tom MacWright
Don’t get lost in asking why, don’t plan too much, do balance between existing and new skills.
Falling Into The Pit of Success
Jeff Atwood
‘(…) a well-designed system makes it easy to do the right things and annoying (but not impossible) to do the wrong things.’
Allen Pike
Rasmus Andersson
Work before passion
Seth Godin
‘Offer me a chance to contribute, and I’ll work hard on it, with focus, and once I begin to make progress, I’ll become passionate about it.’
Niki Tonsky
Lee Robinson
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
‘(…) everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’
Leadership Mode Activate
‘As a leader, you’re in a position to solve bigger problems than you ever could by yourself, since you can deploy the full force of a team.’
Wes Bos
Are You a Developer?
David Walsh
‘Being a developer isn’t about summiting the top of the mountain of knowledge. It’s about climbing a hill and enjoying the view for a few moments—then spotting the next one and plodding on.’
Tom MacWright
Josh W Comeau
Complaint-Driven Development
Jeff Atwood
‘The only thing I've ever seen work is getting down deep and dirty in the trenches with your users, communicating with them and cultivating relationships.’
The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin
‘Everything, I realized, is a choice. And spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.’
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
‘Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.’
Everything Easy is Hard Again
Frank Chimero
‘I wonder if I have twenty years of experience making websites, or if it is really five years of experience, repeated four times.’
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
‘I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. (…) The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.’
Daniel Eden
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
‘I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.’
Max Böck
Quiet
Susan Cain
‘The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers — of persistence, concentration, and insight — to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think deeply.’
Chris Collins
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
‘If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).’
Brian Lovin
Types of careers
On the three types of carrers and how to act accordingly.
