Max Beatty

How to inspect Safari on iOS from your Mac

I had a project at work that required inspecting a web page on an actual mobile device instead of in an emulator or simulator. I found a lot of other instructions on how to do this but most were outdated, complicated, or both. This is my attempt at a straightforward, visual walkthrough.

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On Messing Up Your Remote Team—And Then Getting It Right

https://j.mp/2T9kdpB

Writing Docs at Amazon

http://j.mp/35qYgqA

7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

http://j.mp/30GEdAD

Electric cars are changing the cost of driving

http://j.mp/37dV7tE

Ryan Singer: Products are functions

https://j.mp/3dfrWKu

I test in prod

Every deploy, after all, is a unique and never-to-be-replicated combination of artifact, environment, infra, and time of day.

https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/

Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters — Read on basecamp.com/shapeup

Fantastic tactical guide! I’d love to work on a team that practices this.

Building Pass Plum for Slack

Pass Plum is a side project I started a few years ago after being frustrated with some needlessly complex yet insecure WiFi passwords I came across while traveling. The website is a good start for helping people. For the tool to be more useful, it needs to be accessible from more places. Creating a Slack app was an early idea. After an afternoon of development, you can now type /passplum to…

Does your team need to rebrand?

Cate Huston, writing for Quartz at Work:

Sometimes part of rebranding a team means rebranding people—especially those who were seen as responsible for the team’s previous underperformance, or who had struggled to be effective under the previous structure.

Sometimes the reputation is deserved, but far from always. Most people don’t want to fail. The challenge of rebranding is to understand the…

Mike Davidson wrote about the consequences of Superhuman’s read receipts complete with possible solutions. This is pure gold:

When a company first forms, there are no norms or principles guiding how its people should make decisions. It’s basically just what’s in the founders’ heads. With each decision a company makes, its “decision genome” is established and subsequently hardened. You’ve decided…