Although I expect most users are in the habit of initiating communication not from their contacts app, but from the appropriate communication apps like Messages, FaceTime, or Mail, actions are still a nice option to have, and with a bit of forceful habit change they could make Cardhop a powerful one-stop-shop for your communication needs. Just as Drafts is "where text starts," Cardhop could be "where communication starts."

We were excited to see someone "online".Now, we don't even have a offline status.— marc-antoine (@marcantoinefon) March 21, 2019

My own writing and knowledge exists to help you find ways to think about the problems only you can solve and questions to ask yourself to figure out how to proceed. ​ Asking for help or guidance isn’t wrong, it’s just not always required to proceed.

What started as an avant-garde, standard-compliant browser is now a sprawling platform that spares no area of modern computing. ​ If it works as intended on Chrome, it’s ready to ship. This in turn results in more users flocking to the browser as their favorite Web sites and apps no longer work elsewhere, making developers less likely to spend time testing on other browsers. A vicious cycle that, if not broken, will result in most other browsers disappearing in the oblivion of irrelevance. And that’s exactly how you suffocate the open Web. ​ It also happens that Google’s business is search engine advertising and AdSense. Everything else is a measly 10% of their annual revenue. That in and of itself is not an issue, but when the line between the browser, the search engine, and online services is blurred, we have a problem. And a big one at that.

Whenever I speak with anyone new to a medium and insecure about their work, I think about this passage from David Byrne's "How Music Works," about how capitalism devalues amateur expression to encourage consumption. pic.twitter.com/B5fr3jNMS5— Kevin Snow (@bravemule) March 6, 2019

Moving away from a city won’t change your relationship to work. Neither will meditating, or facials, or any of the other solutions to burnout that are actually about focusing you just enough to make you a better worker, instead of admitting that trying to work more — and focusing all of your self-bettering energy on that goal — is the problem itself. ​ rather, community, and reorienting oneself away from the American god of capitalism, might. ​ It’s going to take me a very long time to unlearn the idea that I’m only as valuable as my ability to work more than everyone around me. But I’m trying.

We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching.

Of the early Stripe lore I’ve encountered, my favorite is that it managed to accomplish a tremendous amount with a small team because folks moved so rapidly from one project to another project that, leaving an afterimage behind them, it appeared that they were everywhere simultaneously.

The backing GH issue thread is wonderful https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa/issues/2190

Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' unofficial PDF and LaTeX source - GitHub - hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf: Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theor...

I can’t be the only one who has to stop and think which “direction” filter() goes. Am I filtering in or out?

The depth of architectural thinking at work here makes a kiddie-pool seem oceanic. ​ It really is the perfect name, however, not least because it implies a certain emptiness. ​ It is a Vessel for a so-called neighborhood that poorly masks its intention to build luxury assets for the criminally wealthy under the guise of investing in the city and “public space.” ​ Unlike a real neighborhood, which implies some kind of social collaboration or collective expression of belonging, Hudson Yards is a contrived place that was never meant for us. ​ The presence of the elevator implies a pressure for the abled-bodied to not use it, since by doing so one bypasses “the experience” of the Vessel, an experience of menial physical labor that aims to achieve the nebulous goal of attaining slightly different views of the city.

It’s a collection of small functions and properties without a linear story. ​ Part of me does not want to encourage people to use RxSwift for the reasons I’ve outlined. But part of me very much wants to encourage people to use RxSwift — because change comes, in part, from the community pushing the state of the art. ​ But if you do use it, and some time in the future there’s a nice, declarative way of handling events and dealing with state, then I’ll have you to thank for helping make that come true.

pic.twitter.com/JEK5ShqY6A— k cool (@katelikestoread) March 22, 2019

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“The goal of our union is to have a formal seat at the table to negotiate with management,” the Kickstarter Union organizers write in their email to staff. “We’re negotiating to promote our collective values, and ensure Kickstarter is around for the long haul. We care about preserving what’s great about Kickstarter and improving what isn’t.” ​ Kickstarter has always been a trailblazer, and this is a pivotal moment for tech.

The articles are often very well done and beautifully illustrated — and it would be to the benefit of Apple, and app developers, if these articles were findable and readable by people sitting in front of a computer.

But here’s the thing: tons of people use RSS readers. There’s no shame in it; you’re not the last person; there’s not going to be a last person. ​ Deliberately — or through inaction — reserving technology for a sophisticated group is Not a Good Thing.

Stories that elicit a big reaction provide us with a big opportunity to acknowledge our most challenging emotions and to wrestle with the assumptions, ideas, and beliefs that may no longer serve us. And that's the *whole* point of writing, of communicating, and of being human.

Since I actually know how long tasks take me, I’m better at planning my days. ​ Some time tracking tools automatically track what you do on your computer, which would certainly be even more accurate than the program I’m using now. However, even though Toggl can’t tell if I’m on Twitter, the timer forces me to actively choose to work or not work. If that timer is running but I’m on Instagram, I know that I’m cheating. It’s a neat psychological tool for holding myself accountable.

Only spend time on people and activities that could break your heart. Otherwise, even if you win, will it have been worth it?

Ad blockers come with an important asterisk: while they do benefit a ton of people in major ways, they also hurt some, including many who don’t deserve the hit. ​ I got to engage the technical part of my brain and make something great that doesn’t hurt anyone, with no asterisks or qualifications. That’s my peace.

One of my first interactions with a Principal 1 at Amazon was a design review for a design owned by a team that was not mine, merely adjacent to mine. Because I was 21 and a dumbass, I thought that this older guy would hew closer to a PM or a manager and say some sort of irrelevant/ignorant set of remarks rather than a bunch of clever, reasonable, and forward-looking things, and of course the latter is what he did. Amazon’s flavor of title to designate “extremely distinguished engineer” ↩

It's my fault, sorry. In the early days of Swift, we had a closure syntax that was very similar to traditional Javascript, func (arg: Type, arg: Type) -> Return { ... }. While this is nice and regular syntax, it is of course also very bulky and awkward if you're trying to support expressive functional APIs, such as map/filter on collections, or if you want libraries to be able to provide closure-based APIs that feel like extensions of the language. Our earliest adopters at Apple complained about...

Maybe the credential store (culprit 1) is so cumbersome, that the growth oriented team (culprit 2) had to build something sketchy to meet their managers’ (culprit 3) KPIs!