Posts by Allen Cheung
10 Front-End Development Tools
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools "you can't live without" and found it lacking; it's more of a list of IDEs/text editors and frameworks which a front-end could choose from. I…
Assuming Everybody Else Sucked
The year was 2010. We were searching for the next big Facebook app, high off our previous successes. This was when Facebook just released the News Feed, and everything from cute icons to animated fake pets made millions from ad…
More Than 12 Weeks and More Than a CS Degree
I was chatting with a friend today on how difficult it has been for his startup to hire. They're competing against startups flush with Series A/B cash, IPO-candidate companies offering equity with some weight, and public companies…
Outdated Vehicular Technologies
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I…
The Web is Both Extremely Fast and Agonizingly Slow
Firefox OS is coming – Ars posted a preview of a prototype, and while its chances of success are slim in the face of (relatively) more mature mobile operating and eco-systems[1], it's encouraging to see how something as…
Placing a Real Value on your Time
Most of the people reading this blog are workers whose skills and experience are in demand; we'd all like to think that our time has real value, and that someone using it ought to be paying to use…
