joshuago’s Bookmarks
Don't pollute the global namespace. Finish with undefined.
Stay focused and don't make it about you; pursue the tone of the text. But let it be informed and colored by the tone of the bigger picture. Written for Christian preachers, but principles are generally applicable.
The abundance of printed material replaced the natural, visceral human oral psychodynamics with those of literate and written ones. Twitter and Facebook bring us back to that unpolished conversational flow.
Start saving early, because compound interest does wonders. And do whatever it takes to create or maintain fire in your belly.
Among the elaborate seals, bronze statues and marble hallways that adorn federal Washington, there is another symbol of the machinery of government that is often overlooked: the lowly ballpoint pen.
Competitors will invest in marketing, and the combined marketing efforts of a number of competitors will accelerate the development of a nascent market. It is very hard to build a market all alone. Also, when a large company enters a market, it validates the market in the minds of many who had not been paying attention to it before.
Reading news online feels like flying Economy. Loud distracting banners, cheap stock picture material, sloppy typography, a lot of useless comment noise, machine generated reading tips, no human service, and a claustrophobic information design make the reading experience a torture.
We should go pro and abandon anti. Because believing in something? Going after it by running as hard as you can? That is not cool—it is ugly and it is awesome. Why be reductive? Why undercut a true and honest attempt?
Use bcrypt because it's slow as hell. It introduces a work factor which affects how expensive the hash function will be, and can keep up with Moore's law.
Letter to Amazon's shareholders detailing the nature of investments technology infrastructure. Favorite tidbit, personally, is about how technologies are implemented almost exclusively as services, because it "reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system."