As a card-carrying Delaware fanboy, I was excited to see Biden give his acceptance speech last night even though he didn’t receive my vote. I do not agree with all of his policies but I am glad to see him starting his presidency with a conciliatory, forward-looking tone.
One thing well
My wife and I agreed that the shower walls had to be finished this weekend so that we could have our second bathroom fully functioning. I woke up this morning aware that this was the One Thing that had to be accomplished today, I figured out what was needed to accomplish it, and other than waiting until tomorrow to finish grouting the newest section of tile, it got finished. There is a feeling of satisfaction from completing a manual task that is sorely lacking from teaching. The work is never finished, and when it is, the results are so often indecipherable.
A Guy Walks Into an Apple Store
Read on birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/
Nailed it. I’m all for reducing waste, but that often means not updating things as frequently. You can’t release the first generation of a new product claiming that you’re letting customers use the things they already have when they won’t work with it.
Reviving a 16-year old Mac App
90 Days With The Pinebook Pro
How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad
How to Build Good Software
https://www.csc.gov.sg/articles/how-to-build-good-software
- Start as simple as possible;
- Seek out problems and iterate; and
- Hire the best engineers you can.
Practicing the Coding Challenges
inessential.com/2020/04/26/practicing_the_coding_challenges
Because what we really need is clever programmers instead of ones that want to work with other people or make sense to them.