Hi, how was your week? 🖖🏻
Toot of the Week
Imagine thinking you can build something as complex as a web browser without involving *anyone* with a plushie shork. I wouldn't trust it. — @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
Work
- How we designed our company for speed (posthog.com)
James Hawkins explains how PostHog optimized their company for velocity.
- Creativity is the byproduct of work (robinrendle.com)
Robin Rendle about ways to get creative.
Software
- htmx sucks (htmx.org)
Carson Gross explains why htmx is a bad choice for our web project (it's not).
- Serving a billion web requests with boring code (notes.billmill.org)
Bill Mill explains the architecture and tooling they used for a large government software project and how it‘s worked out.
Cutting Room Floor
- Love, Death, and Computers (lmnt.me)
Louie Mantia argues tech companies should have teams dedicated to dealing with death.
- Free idea: design token ugly mode (ericwbailey.website)
Eric Bailey shares an idea to quickly see the implementation of design tokens: ugly mode.
- Against the Burden of Knowledge (theseedsofscience.pub)
Maxwell Tabarrok argues the "burden of knowledge" is the wrong explanation why ideas are getting harder to find.
