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“If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform.”
— Joshua Topolsky, Facebook as the consummate middleman
Tagged: Facebook, Social Media, Media
“There is a very real tension here — criminals either have encryption like the rest of us, or no one does — and it's on us to make the argument that we collectively have much more to lose than criminals have to gain”
— Ben Thompson, Update on the Fight over iPhone Security, Encryption Under Attack, WhatsApp Adds Encryption
Tagged: Encryption, Backdoor, Golden Key, Senate Intelligence Committee Encryption Bill 2016, Apple, FBI
“Let me be absolutely crystal clear: this bill, absent massive changes (which, given the previous statements of its authors — Democrat Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina — is highly unlikely) is an unmitigated disaster. The only way for any company to abide by its provisions to deliver any data on their devices or services to law enforcement in an "intelligible format" would be to insert a "golden key" into its encryption; as I detailed in the excerpt above, this is far worse than anything the FBI is requesting. It proactively weakens all devices, whether they are served with a warrant or not, and it creates the conditions for a systematic silent security failure, where critical data is compromised without anyone.”
— Ben Thompson, Update on the Fight over iPhone Security, Encryption Under Attack, WhatsApp Adds Encryption
Tagged: Apple, Encryption, Backdoor, Golden Key, FBI, Senate Intelligence Committee Encryption Bill 2016
“an unanticipated result
a unanimous vote
an honest decision
a honeysuckle shrub
an 0800 number
a xmas tree
a unidirectional beam
an unidiomatic phrase
a NASA scientist
an NSA analyst
a FIAT car
an FAA policy”
— Eamon Nerbonne, A vs An
Tagged: Javascript, Frontend, Strings, Grammar
“One of the clearest signs of a competent UI designer is restraint. It’s about knowing the capabilities of your chosen platform and then not using them (until the perfect opportunity arises).”
— Sophie Paxton, Your UI isn’t a Disney Movie
Tagged: User Experience, Product Design, Motion
“In order to claim fluency in JavaScript, it’s important to understand how JavaScript’s native inheritance capabilities work. This is an often neglected area of JavaScript writing and learning, but understanding it can be dramatically empowering.”
— Eric Elliott, Classical Inheritance is Obsolete - How to Think in Prototypal OO
Tagged: Frontend, Javascript
“I’ve found myself more and more rating both my feelings and the importance of any particular decision on that same one-to-ten scale.”
— Cap Watkins, The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
Tagged: User Experience, Product Design
“Hold on a second. I’m like a two-out-of-ten on this.

How strongly do you feel? I’m probably a six-out-of-ten, I replied after a couple moments of consideration.

Cool, then let’s do it your way.”
— Cap Watkins, The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
Tagged: Product Design, User Experience
“The answer is simple: front end development, like any specialized trade or spectator sport, is a lot harder than it looks. It isn’t until you’ve dipped your toes in it that you realize just how turbulent the waters are.”
— Ilias Ismanalijev, Why is it so hard to find a good front end developer?
Tagged: Frontend
“At Simon, we use Jenkins for continuous integration, but we also use it for much more than that. It functions as an asynchronous job queue, a workflow manager for our Elastic MapReduce job flows, a context for executing one-off long running scripts, a vehicle for continuous deployment, and more.”
— Jason Davis, Can We Use Jenkins for That?
Tagged: Jenkins, Ops
“Facebook supports a diverse audience around the world and an equally diverse set of devices. To emphasize that in our design mocks, we redrew a range of devices to show the global diversity of the people using our products. Each device comes with a bitmap of the device (with and without shadows) and the original Sketch file for that device.”
— Facebook Design, Devices
Tagged: Design Resources
“At the same time, we humans crave certainty. We like knowing where our next meal will come from. We like folks who keep their promises. To get a group of people to accomplish anything together, planning is essential.”
— Julie Zhuo, Creative Confidence — The Year of the Looking Glass
Tagged: Product Design
“React is a great way to generate static HTML with a component-based UI. One of the biggest hurdles to working with React is the amount of boilerplate and build configuration it takes to get going. I wanted to make it dead-simple to start building static pages with React and without the need to install tons of npm modules and configure webpack.”
— Brent Jackson, Zero-Configuration React Static Site Generator
Tagged: React, Frontend
“It goes without saying that GitHub offers some of the best collaboration tools in the industry. If you're like me, you spend most of your days on GitHub filing bugs and feature requests, reviewing code, and shipping features. You love how deeply GitHub issues (and pull requests) integrate with your codebase. But when it comes to project management, you simply need more functionality than GitHub issues offers.”
— Codetree, GitHub Issues, Managed
Tagged: Github, Project Management, Products
“A Design Systems Ops is a person who is part of a design systems team, who needs to get into the designers’ shoes, and have a feel what their are trying to conceptualize. At the same time, Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements and define methods that will help shipping and scaling the Design System. In a way, a Design Systems Ops is the translator between these two worlds.”
— Kaelig, Design Systems Ops
Tagged: Design Systems, Frontend
“What are the biggest disadvantages/difficulties of using React?

Many people who are new to React and the ‘React Ecosystem’ really struggle with some of the concepts of state management in the context of a React app. Depending on one’s background, it can be a very different way of thinking, and this is where I see the most issues coming from.”
— Ignacio Gutierrez, Leland Richardson, How Airbnb Uses React
Tagged: React, Airbnb, Frontend
“As of today, it is possible to produce a competitive Node.js application whose entire stack will comfortably rest on various frameworks, tools and libraries developed by TJ — and TJ alone.”
— kelas, How is TJ Holowaychuk so insanely productive?
Tagged: Javascript, Open Source, NPM
“if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
    navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js');
};”
— Remy Sharp, The copy & paste guide to your first Service Worker
Tagged: Javascript, Service Workers, Frontend
“This Dockerfile is used by the build pipeline to create a new Docker image upon pushing code to the repository. The built image will then be used to start a new service on an ECS cluster.”
— Chris Barclay, Set up a build pipeline with Jenkins and Amazon ECS
Tagged: AWS, Ops, Docker, Jenkins
“Noah: I want to know if it’s possible, really possible, to be a good man and a great man. 

Therapist: And by good, you mean? 

Noah: Well, the way Helen reads the obituaries for long-lasting marriages, for virtue basically, monogamy, partnership, love. I mean, do the men who Helen thinks led good lives, how many of them also had great lives? 

Therapist: Depends now what you mean by great. 

Noah: Would General Bradley have conquered Normandy if he had been home changing diapers? I’m serious. You look at the way this guy led his life. He went out into the world and followed his instincts, and he took whatever he wanted. Maybe he was narcissistic, maybe his wife was unhappy, but his life had consequence. He basically won the war for us. So do we judge him for his absence from his family and his infidelity, or do we just let that slide because what does it matter at the end? The guy stopped Hitler. 

Therapist: What does it matter to whom? 

Noah: There is a certain type of man that history reveres. We see it over and over: Jefferson, Hamilton, Picasso, Hemingway, all of them cheaters. It’s like they have this bald desire, this willingness to take whatever they want, that ends up making them remarkable. 

Therapist: But again, I want to understand how this connects to you. 

Noah: What if, I mean, what if? What if I have it in me to be great? What if the only thing that separates me from Ernest Hemingway is that he never had to choose? He just gave himself permission to do whatever the fuck he wanted in the name of his work and he didn’t care who he made suffer. 

Therapist: And he blew out his brains at 60.

Therapist: You tell me. 

Noah: I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good partner and a good father, and I love having a family and a home and people that depend on me. But I also want to go to France and — for two years — and fuck whoever and feel alive again and write a great novel. What I do not want is to be dishonest, I tried that and I hate myself, if there is one thing I can change, I don’t want to lie, to myself or to anyone else.


Therapist: So you're gonna be in here again with Alison, but before that, I think it's worth taking the time to look beyond Bradley, beyond Jefferson, beyond whoever. To another list. A list of men who did remarkable things and remained loyal partners. We hear about them less, but they're out there too. 

Noah: I know that, of course. 

Therapist: A few of them sit right where you're sitting. Every week. How do they fit into your theory? You could be in France right now with a sitter minding Joanie. And you didn't have to tell me about your appointment with Lucy. And the very fact that you stayed today, and that you're struggling with these issues, to me, that says volumes about who you really are. 

Noah: Great, so who am I? 

Therapist: Thank you for the talk.”
— This Feature Is Not Supproted, Showtime But Not Supported
“When your first book failed, I was relived... Part of me hoped it meant you would finally give up on writing and just be content with me and the kids. And I guess I just couldn’t see what you really wanted.”
— Helen Solloway, Epsiode
Tagged: Close Strangers
“The calendar says I had known him only for a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Vintage International)
Tagged: Friendship, Time Warps, Time, Subjective Time
“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: fiction, Create Realms
“Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage International)
Tagged: Never Die
“But the plants seemed to remind me that we are by no means at the center of planetary telos because there is no center, only the distributed emergence of complexity and its dissolution (cosmos).”
— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere
Tagged: Joyful Complexity, The Place Of The Human
“Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
Tagged: Collage, Remix, Progress
“You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realities, which you can study, too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors, and you— all of you— will be left to just study what we do.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
Tagged: History, Too Fast, Reality Moves, Never Static, Against Objectivity
“I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Collective Power, Digital Witchhunts, Crowdthought
“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, Relying on Friendship in a World Made for Couples
Tagged: Friendship, The Ways We Love
“But here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore, and everything changes once again.”
— Joesph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome To The Night Vale: Episode 75, Through the Narrow Place
Tagged: Change, Desire, Goals, Becoming Yourself

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