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Code Pessimism
Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a your codebase and uttered one or more of the following: * Hm, should get to that TODO at some point. * I'll love deleting that chunk code when we…
The Fresh Smell of Google+
By now, Google+ has gone through: * 8-9 months' worth of internal dogfooding[1] * a media blitzkrieg * an interactive demo * one round of external beta testing * one round of external beta testers inviting as many friends as possible The…
Frustrating CSS Animations
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser,…
The Pain of Mobile Web Development
I've been playing around with the coding mobile sites and webapps lately. Ironically, although Apple had first pushed for web apps with iOS 1.0 - it's hard to remember that the iPhone did not let outside…
Startups are about Passion
It's been an exhausting week. My first week as a software engineer at Square has me collapsing on the couch nightly. Though the first few days are always stressful and daunting - startups especially so - it's a…
Touch Interfaces and Disregarding Creation
When I heard the iOS announcement this morning on system-wide Twitter integration, I figured it was a great UI move on Twitter's part, and at the very least would get more usage from the power Twitter users.…
