Organizational skills for the win →

Published August 7, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 7

When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. … [T]here’s always lots of state to keep track of, rearranging of values, handling special cases, and carefully working out how all the pieces of a system interact. To a great extent the act of coding is one of organization. Refactoring. Simplifying. Figuring out how to remove extraneous manipulations here and there.

~ James Hague from, Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry

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It is use cases all the way down →

Published August 6, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 6  ·  

The center of your application is not the database. Nor is it one or more of the frameworks you may be using. The center of your application are the use cases of your application.

~ Bob Martin from, Clean Coder Blog

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What it means to be mortal →

Published August 5, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 5

We, like all living things, want to live on — we want to project ourselves into the future, we have this will to live. And yet, unlike other living things, we have to live in a knowledge that this will is going to be thwarted, that we’re going to die. And so we might have to live with this sense of personal apocalypse — the worst thing that could possibly happen, will. This is what it means to be mortal.

~ Maria Popova from, The Philosophy of Immortality – The Marginalian

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Work mind and vacation mind →

Published August 4, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 4

They are two different things, and yet, what if we could have the vacation mind while working? We’d have to toss out the lazing around and the margaritas, but the mindset could be the same. The result would be a saner way of living, where we aren’t “working for the weekend” or looking forward to the little vacation time we have, but instead are happier throughout the week.

~ Leo Babauta from, The Practice of Work Mind & Vacation Mind, Simultaneously – Zen Habits Website

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Craig sans mustache →

Published August 3, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 3  ·  

Yes. No mustache.

…and no, you have never seen me without a mustache.

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Velodrome →

Published August 2, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 2

Friday night races!!

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Craftsmanship →

Published August 2, 2013  ·  All posts on Aug 2

As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft. Through this work we have come to value…

~ Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship from, http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org

Over time, the ideal of craftsmanship was cordoned off to just the technical arts. Physicians and legislators no longer thought of themselves as craftsmen, but as philosophers and natural scientists who were more concerned with the theoretical as opposed to the practical. Such a shift is a shame, for the principles of craftsmanship truly do apply to every man, whether he makes furniture or crunches numbers.

~ Brett McKay from, Applying the Ethos of the Craftsman to Our Everyday Lives | The Art of Manliness

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Try to ask a doctor or any engineer to do a crappy job in order to reduce costs. Engineers can change product’s materials to cheaper ones, they can change product’s final characteristics, but they don’t change their level of attention and their process of doing things the way they think it’s right. Doctors can perform simpler or different procedures by patient request, impacting somehow on the final result, but the attention, caring and cleanliness will be the same.

~ Caio Fernando Bertoldi Paes de Andrade from, Perception that high quality equals Rolls Royce

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6th gen prog lang →

Published July 31, 2013  ·  All posts on Jul 31  ·  ,

6th gen prog lang: when you yell to a co-worker, “yo! email me that binary.”

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Be soft! →

Published July 31, 2013  ·  All posts on Jul 31  ·  

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe the world to be a beautiful place.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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Sonder →

Published July 29, 2013  ·  All posts on Jul 29  ·  

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — sonder
Urban Dictionary: sonder
sonder – Wiktionary, the free dictionary

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

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