Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Matthias Marschall – How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products: „You dug your technical grave, but the rest of the company is celebrating a huge win! No one outside the tech department noticed how huge the technical debt you’ve just taken in order to deliver. […] If features are pre-sold without any option to negotiate what’s…

Tim Bray – DMR, 1941—2011: „Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I’ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime. It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie.“

„The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.“ Beautiful website, beautiful, free, high-quality SVG icon collection. And a store with nice iPhone cases and t-shirts.

Guy Kawasaki – What I learned from Steve Jobs: „Not everyone will believe—that’s okay. But the starting point of changing the world is changing a few minds. This is the greatest lesson of all that I learned from Steve.“

Tim Bray on the death of Steve Jobs – Steve’s Legacy: „What were the Really Big Things? Proving that user experience matters more than anything else in computer-based consumer products. Even more: that it matters more than everything else put together.“

Steven Levy at Wired.com – Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011: „After what seemed to be a successful initial surgery, Jobs would vary from his circumspect stance just once, in his address to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. That speech, by the way, might be the best commencement address in history. When designing computers, Jobs…

Joe Wikert of O’Reilly Radar interviews Flipboard’s Evan Doll – The making of a „minimum awesome product“: „Every time you present the user with a non-essential decision to make, you have failed as a designer. […] Focus less on producing a „minimum viable product“ and more on making it a „minimum awesome product.“

Leo Babauta – focus : a simplicity manifesto in the age of distraction. From the free PDF version of the book: „In the days when computers took up only part of our lives, there were times when we could get away from them, when we were disconnected from the grid. Unfortunately, many people still filled…

Skip Reedy – Projects With No Dates?: „The real reason is that we think we need the safety to protect getting that task done on time. That’s not what we need it for. We need safety to get the project done on time. We don’t need the safety in the task duration, we need the…

Joe Hewitt – Creative Tools: „The brilliance of Facebook management is encouraging everyone to take initiative, take risks, and wear as many hats as you can. I wish more tech companies operated like this.“