Ideas often get copied from well-known established projects into new projects with the background behind those decisions lost. Projects should have a "https://t.co/iLkkhljAHY" to lay out regretful design choices that can't be reversed for time, compatibility, etc. reasons— Joe Groff (@jckarter) January 14, 2019

“People talk about businesses having "moats" but I think a better metaphor is a reef. A reef can protect and foster an ecosystem while keeping bad players out, or serve as treacherous and impassable protection. They also grow fractally. Grow a reef.”

“By bypassing many of the traditional gatekeepers of entertainment, we have seen an entirely new class of celebrity emerge.”

"he cares for the egg the only way he knows how: He plants it."

"Friends, it's time for me to recharge the batteries and take a Pome hiatus. This third run has indeed been a charm; thank you so much for reading! Stay well, support your local poet, and see you somewhere down the road. -M x" "the song was in fact the joyous concordance of a moment that would not come again"

in conclusion: I'm more myself on the internet than I am in "real life". maybe you are too. maybe that's fine— Max Kreminski (@maxkreminski) January 10, 2019

One of my biggest revelations of the last year was the @fortelabs insight that you benefit from the internet information firehose by having a system that lets you embrace it, rather than rejecting/hiding from it like this: https://t.co/NU6Qz4kZTh— Drew Austin (@kneelingbus) January 9, 2019

“Everyone thinks they can write, because everybody writes,” said Rasenberger, referring to the proliferation of casual texting, emailing and tweeting. But she distinguishes these from professional writers “who have been working on their craft and art of writing for years.” “What a professional writer can convey in written word is far superior to what the rest of us can do,” said Rasenberger. “As a society we need that, because it’s a way to crystallize ideas, make us see things in a new way and create understanding of who we are as a people, where we are today and where we’re going.”

“This is in some sense a restatement of some things which I “knew” before, but I didn’t know them then as I do now.”

“and faintly like I'm cosplaying as a different, more well-adjusted version of myself.” “I am growing a beard now. This is terrible news for everyone involved.” “I am worried (albeit only faintly) that if OmniFocus doesn't work, it will less be a failure of the software (which seems very nice) and more a failure of that underlying assumption: that you cannot, in fact, sit down and think for a long time and emerge with a roadmap for the best possible 2019, a glorious lattice of checklists and todos.”

📜 A thread of some thoughts that I wish the 21-year-old version of me had done sooner: https://t.co/rKJpUo0Jsv— John F🎃minella 🌠 (@jxxf) January 6, 2019

[bonus content] enjoy this improv outtake from the archives, freshly unearthed from steve ballmer's personal media server. merry christmas from krazam watch senior engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqexFg74F8 // merch: https://merch.krazam.tv // https://www.instagram.com/krazam.tv // https://twitter.com/krazamtv

“One thing that writing elegant software has in common with art: its crafters should remain cognizant of the overall macro vision of the project at the same time they are working on its smallest micro details. JIRA, alas, implicitly teaches everyone to ignore the larger vision while focusing on details. There is no whole. At best there is an “Epic” — but the whole point of an Epic is to be decomposed into smaller pieces to be worked on independently. JIRA encourages the disintegration of the macro vision.” “Worst of all, though, is the endless implicit pressure for tickets to be marked finished, to be passed on to the next phase. Tickets, in the JIRA mindset, are taken on, focused on until complete, and then passed on, never to be seen again. They have a one-way life cycle: specification; design; development; testing; release. Doesn’t that sound a little … um … waterfall-y? Isn’t agile development supposed to be fundamentally different from waterfall development, rather than simply replacing one big waterfall with a thousand little ones?” “In software, as in art, the micro work and the macro vision should always be informed by one another. Let JIRA map the micro work; but let good old-fashioned plain language describe the macro vision, and try to pay more attention to it.”

Result in Swift 5

“An airport after security and before boarding is, at least to me, the last place where every verb is only in the future tense.” “The veil feels thin between who I have settled into being and all the other people I could have been.” “Maybe it is possible to want the things you have”

Yesterday, I shared a lot of data about my 2018. I’ve always been pretty forthcoming online. I share a ton of good things, and some of the…

“@jckarter @lemire @cocoaphony @mpweiher @Ilseman @stephentyrone @aalonso128 @ericasadun Just kidding, works great! func asc(_ f: @escaping (T) -> (T) -> ComparisonResult) -> (T, T) -> Bool { return { f($0)($1) == .orderedAscending } } ["abc", "ABD"].sorted(by: asc(String.localizedCompare))”

“and those who age well are often as good at forgetting earlier lessons as they are at applying them.” “Find a coach or therapist you jell with. It’s a highly leveraged way to accelerate your emotional development.”

“Thinking something through is an important part of the creative process but it means dick if you don’t ever start. And if you don’t start you don’t finish.”

“Your tribe has the context about you & your life — and can remind you, when you need it, of who you are, and who you can be.”