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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.