Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim Bray – Forget the Defaults: „Seriously. I’ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years, and I’ve taken care never to learn the operator precedence rules in any of them. It’s easy to get them wrong and get bitten and why should I require that people reading my code learn those stupid rules.“

Phil Gyford – Finishability: „But those old-fashioned constraints of printing can also be a benefit. There’s something satisfying, predictable and achievable about a more-or-less fixed amount of stuff to read appearing on a regular schedule. For example, when faced with most news websites one of the reasons I don’t spend much time reading them is…

Clay Shirky at WSJ.com – Does the Internet Make You Smarter?: „We are living through a similar explosion of publishing capability today, where digital media link over a billion people into the same network. This linking together in turn lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated…

Derek Powazek – Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us: „Just think about the millions of people on the internet, each in their own timeline of learning something new. Most people will never get to 2,500 hours. They’ll never not suck. It’s not personal, it’s just math. So that’s why the…

Scott Adams – Brain Management: „I have a theory that music appreciation resides in the same part of your brain where you think about yourself. That might be why it’s good to listen to music while doing boring tasks, such as going for a long run, because music interferes with your mind’s ability to think…

Gojko Adzic – Heroes or idiots?: „Ninety minutes and several confusing messages on the PA system later, the aeroplane was firmly on the ground. The passengers found themselves about 500 miles away from where they were supposed to land and their luggage was now touching the ocean floor. They were however all alive, which was…

Jason Fried at Inc. – Why Is Business Writing So Awful?: „Remember: It’s not about telling a story. It’s about telling a true story well.“

Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web: „HTML-based software has historically provided a better user experience compared to what went before. Everyone in our profession knows that building a good user interface is maddeningly difficult. The discovery, in the early Web browsers, that reasonably-typeset text which embedded simple forms and hyperlinks, and came equipped with…

Ben Ward – Understand The Web: „Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that…

Kurt Opsahl at the Electronic Frontier Foundation – Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline: „To help illustrate Facebook’s shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook’s privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time!“ Via Nat Torkington.