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  • Recently: February 2021

    Previous: January 2021. Next: March 2021. January’s post re-connected me with some folks, which made me think this “recently” idea wasn’t that bad after all. Here’s February’s. 3 blogs of programmers I follow In a Twitter conversation with Óscar and Juan, Juan suggested we should share blogs of programmers we follow. It’s been a while…

  • Recently: January 2021

    Next: February 2021. Inspired by Tom MacWright, I’m starting a “recently” series, where I’m going to branch out a bit from the usual topics of this site ― which weren’t very focused anyway. Aims to be monthly. Streamers The past year I’ve started to follow some streamers. It’s a lot of fun if you find…

  • Plans and planning

    Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight Eisenhower.

  • Where to begin?

    Begin anywhere. — John Cage.

  • Cunningham’s Law

    The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer. — Cunningham’s Law.

  • Roots and fruits

    The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet. — Attributed to Aristotle.

  • Catan

    Review of “Catan”, the board game.

  • Routine things

    High performing teams do routine things in an outstanding manner, routinely. — Ann Dunwoody, USA’s first female 4-star general. At A8C’s Grand Meetup, 2018.

  • Dare to know

    Have the courage to use your own understanding. — Kant, What is enlightenment?

  • Azul

    Review of “Azul”, the board game.

  • CuBirds

    Review of “CuBirds”, the card game.

  • Sushi Go!

    Review of “Sushi Go”, my goto party game.

  • Team and ideas

    Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they’ll get the ideas right. — Ed Catmull, Creativity.

  • Who to write code for?

    Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — SICP, preface to the 1st edition.

  • Dvorak, 3rd year

    How I’m doing with Dvorak, 3 years since I switched from QWERTY.

  • To become an architect

    To become a member of the community of architects requires an ability to learn to view the world as an architect and to use architect’s tools in a professional way. This can happen only by observing and interacting with experienced architects within the context of a studio. — Ilkka Tuomi, Internet, innovation and OpenSource: Actors…

  • The new

    The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. — Anton Ego, Ratatouille.

  • Chairs and motivation

    Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a colleague, who had a work ethic that I share.

  • How I learned the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

    The learning and memory techniques I used.

  • Architecture astronauts

    When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.

  • Make something well

    To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • Change and irrelevance

    If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Heard to Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.

  • The UNIX way, resurfaced

    Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.