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Embrace serendipity. Grab all the opportunities you can, work harder than you have ever worked, make your own luck but do look after yourself first. Eat right, sleep decent hours and try to get as much of a work / life balance as you can.

#startup #advice #lanyrd #natbat

The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex.

To make the very best products in the world that really deeply enrich people’s lives.

#tim-cook #product #interview #apple

there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

the language here matters. Make it easier for users to sign up vs. Optimize the conversion rate on the sign-up flow. One approach speaks to the value for the end user. The other approach focuses on what the company needs to do to be successful.

#engineer #designer #collaboration

Think of culture as a cofounder that is present when you are not. You are decisive, communicative, and respectful but its your culture that helps everyone know how to act when you are out of the room. Give that voice clarity and authority.

The same principals can be applied to many team aspects.

#postmortem #culture #voice #startup

This visualization shows how many Firefox users are seeking out and enabling Do Not Track in their desktop and mobile versions of Firefox

#firefox #privacy #do-not-track

A good presentation ensures you’ve addressed expectations while successfully transferring the state of what’s in your head to the rest of the room. That’s it, plain and simple. That way, you can focus the bulk of the group’s time and attention on the work itself.

#design #presentation #effective #clarity

It's truely impressive what a hash has been made of a simple thing like recognizing a key pressed on the keyboard.

#JavaScript #key #event

Web FontFonts speak many languages, but most of the time you only need a select few. Removing the letters you don’t need can greatly reduce the font file size to make your websites faster, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce high-traffic costs.

#optimize #font-font #web-font

Rendr is a small library from Airbnb that allows you to run your Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. Allow your web server to serve fully-formed HTML pages to any deep link of your app, while preserving the snappy feel of a traditional Backbone.js client-side MVC app.

#javascript #backbone.js #airbnb #html #mvc

Aside from abandoning HTTP Basic altogether there is an easy fix. close port 80 on your API host. This stops a connection being made dead in its tracks, preventing any credentials being sent in the clear.

Food for thought re securing your API.

#api #security #http #http-basic

Not only that, but the one woman who made whatever the cut was based on her own talents and merits would then be accompanied by four other women who are there “for the sake of including women” – which in turn, to me – makes it look like she is only on a panel to fulfill the “women quota” rather than the actuality – that the organizers thought her pitch kicked ass enough to make the cut.

I'm always wary of commenting on or participating in anything related to sexism/racism/everyism in the software/design world as the privileged white male custard pie is smushed into my face. This post by Rae Hoffman articulates many of my thoughts on the matter.

Timeline cards are the core of your user's interaction with Glass. They not only display your content but are also how your users interact with content on Glass. It is important to create timeline cards that are clear, presentable and readable in both format and style. The Mirror API provides three ways to design cards: by providing text, by using our HTML templates, and by creating your own HTML template.

Glass UI provides almost zero barrier to entry, just use HTML.

#google #glass #html

The primary drivers are: preloading images sooner, more aggressive use of idle network time, dynamically changing resource priorities, deprioritization of preloaded resources, and reduced bandwidth contention among images. In the process, we replaced the old scheduler with a new scheduler that lives in the browser process.

Some insight into Chrome page load time improvements.

#chrome #performance #plt

For years Instapaper was the gold standard, but it’s slipping further and further behind. It might have great fonts, and it certainly has the best-looking (and cleanest) reading view, and it arguably has the best parsing engine (the thing that removes the cruft and leaves just the sweet, simple article text), but it’s feeling a little old-fashioned.

One of the worst arguments against something I've read.

#read-later #instapaper #pocket

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