Posts by Allen Cheung
Y U No Join Startup?
Opportunities! Learning new things! Massive impact! Changing the world! T-Shirts and foosball tables! Beer and parties! Code ninjaing! There is seemingly an endless number of reasons to join a startup, especially now that so many exist, have a decent amount…
Modern Site Engineering
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product line.…
How I Evolved my RSS Reading
Ars had an article today on how RSS is no longer a sane way to consume news; I also saw Marco (of Instapaper fame) posted how he has changed his RSS habit for "sane RSS usage", namely by…
Don't Design and Code
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en…
Dvoraky
One of the things I've always wanted to try was to switch to a Dvorak keyboard layout. It's one of those computing optimizations that seem to make sense in practice, but hard to start given that…
More than just Programmers
I came this article yesterday. In brief, it talks about a group of veteran programmers - 20+ years of experience, these guys - who lament about today's programmers lacking the skill to work at low levels of software…
