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Quote of the Week
“The thing about being wrong is that before you know you’re wrong, it feels exactly like being right.” —Roman Mars
Work
- About 40 hours (thesquareplanet.com)
Jon Gjengset about the pitfalls of working too much, and what to do instead. Thanks, Marcus!
Design
- Context Chips in Survey Design: “Okay, but how does it feel?” (lea.verou.me)
Lea Verou takes you through the process of designing a better survey experience.
Software
- Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty's path to 1.0; what worked well and what didn't.
- That's not an abstraction, that's just a layer of indirection (fhur.me)
Fernando Hurtado Cardenas explains why you should use abstractions in software wisely.
Cutting Room Floor
- 77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024 (theatlantic.com)
The Atlantic has collected 77 facts that blew their minds in 2024.