Latest Quotes

“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

“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

“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— Eric Elliott, Classical Inheritance is Obsolete - How to Think in Prototypal OO

“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

“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

“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?

“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?

“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…”

— Facebook Design, Devices

“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

“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 insta…”

— Brent Jackson, Zero-Configuration React Static Site Generator

“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…”

— Codetree, GitHub Issues, Managed

“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 a…”

— Kaelig, Design Systems Ops

“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…”

— Ignacio Gutierrez, Leland Richardson, How Airbnb Uses React

“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?

“if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) { navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js'); };”

— Remy Sharp, The copy & paste guide to your first Service Worker

“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

“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…”

— 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.”

— The Affair, Helen Solloway, Epsiode

“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)

“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