Posts by Allen Cheung
Realizing the Limitations of Responsive Design
Responsive design! The One True Way™, born from the humble media query, to restore principles of DRY for web development while allowing for optimized experiences on today's myriad of devices. And it cures baldness. But for better or…
Quora and the Motivations behind its Top Writers Program
Quora announced today that they're starting a new program to effectively recognize top contributors to the site over the past year or two, the latest (but the most explicit) in a number of steps to try to encourage…
The Passage of Time, in Software Development Years
Sometimes all these years seem to be physically weighing me down. I turned 30 this year, and while that's hardly old by most standards[1], it feels like a significant amount of time particularly when I think about…
Thinking about the Motivation to Write
Blogs are abandoned all the time. Somewhere between 50% and 99% of blogs are started and then quickly left for dead, after that initial honeymoon period of content and inspiration fades and the hard work of producing something interesting and…
Are Startup Engineers Untalented?
It's cool to do a technology startup. Conventional wisdom has been that employees from big companies get tired of the lack of impact, the bureaucracy and the middle management, and the ones who have smarts and ambition will…
"I Don't Know"
One thing that's inevitable in a growing software company is that engineers are tasked with the chore of interviews, and I've done more than my fair share of talking with candidates through technical problems and projects…
