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Embrace serendipity. Grab all the opportunities you can, work harder than you have ever worked, make your own luck but do look after yourself first. Eat right, sleep decent hours and try to get as much of a work / life balance as you can.

The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex.

To make the very best products in the world that really deeply enrich people’s lives.

there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

the language here matters. Make it easier for users to sign up vs. Optimize the conversion rate on the sign-up flow. One approach speaks to the value for the end user. The other approach focuses on what the company needs to do to be successful.

The same principals can be applied to many team aspects.

This visualization shows how many Firefox users are seeking out and enabling Do Not Track in their desktop and mobile versions of Firefox

A good presentation ensures you’ve addressed expectations while successfully transferring the state of what’s in your head to the rest of the room. That’s it, plain and simple. That way, you can focus the bulk of the group’s time and attention on the work itself.

It's truely impressive what a hash has been made of a simple thing like recognizing a key pressed on the keyboard.

Web FontFonts speak many languages, but most of the time you only need a select few. Removing the letters you don’t need can greatly reduce the font file size to make your websites faster, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce high-traffic costs.

Rendr is a small library from Airbnb that allows you to run your Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. Allow your web server to serve fully-formed HTML pages to any deep link of your app, while preserving the snappy feel of a traditional Backbone.js client-side MVC app.

Food for thought re securing your API.

I'm always wary of commenting on or participating in anything related to sexism/racism/everyism in the software/design world as the privileged white male custard pie is smushed into my face. This post by Rae Hoffman articulates many of my thoughts on the matter.

Glass UI provides almost zero barrier to entry, just use HTML.

Some insight into Chrome page load time improvements.

One of the worst arguments against something I've read.