The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.
PagerDuty raises $90M to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night
PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series D round at a valuation of $1.3 billion. With this, PagerDuty, which was founded in 2009, has now rais…
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
Hooked has 12,489 ratings and 968 reviews. Ted said: Update: I ended up publishing a longer version of this - with a discussion of the trend towards more...
Given how much time I spend producing text, I've spent shockingly little of it considering the tradeoffs of various modes to input it. I had a vague sense that typing is faster than handwriting and that, despite this fact, I still prefer writing......
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.
Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure
Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be s…
Around March of 2017, I received a call asking for a code review on a product about to be launched. This company had issues with memory leaks, spontaneous crashing, slow loading, CPU spiking, and had to release in a couple of weeks. You might have heard this story before, just not from me, and not about this company. It’s surprisingly common. We got together on the weekend and started looking through the code together.
UX And HTML5: Let’s Help Users Fill In Your Mobile Form (Part 1)
Do you test your forms on real users and real devices? If not, you should. Let’s take a look at some of the techniques that can help you take your forms to the next level and help users fill them in.
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality.
Cherry MX History: A German Company With American Roots
The famed mechanical keyboard switch manufacturer Cherry has been around since the 1950s—but it's only been defined by keyboard switches in the past decade.
Incident postmortem for July 19: what happened and what’s next
On July 19, CircleCI faced a sitewide outage which left thousands of teams unable to test and deploy builds for the better part of a day. This outage affected the productivity of many development teams, and surely caused a few missed deadlines. We value the trust our customers place in us, and are deeply sorry for the effect this had on their work. For those interested, we want to give more details as to what happened, why it happened, and what we’re doing about it.