Whitebrd: Kristofer Palmvik

I was treating “teaching users your product” as 1 big job, and in reality there are potentially 3 sub-jobs hiding behind it. When you teach your product, you actually teach 3 different dimensions: the interface, the domain, and the benefit.

The implication: first, choose your fairness wisely. Choose the groups you want to be fair toward: gender, race, age, and income. And understand that there are trade-offs.

“I think people struggle with email because they’ve been using it for a long time, and they’ve developed bad habits,” he says. “They don’t know when or how to best use it. And no matter what company you’re at, email is the one tool that you’re always using.”

An extended list including a huge amount of products and services that are completely free!

Courier is an API and web studio for development teams to manage all product-triggered communications (email, chat, in-app, SMS, push, etc.) in one place.

The core value of the product—the “magic moment”—lives with the best customers, who love your product the most. First, understand them better than they understand themselves. Once you understand what the magic is, and the value it unlocks, then you go to work on the rest of the funnel.

Just because we can see more information faster, doesn’t mean we know how to make sense of any or all of it. The lessons are more complex than “treat your people as ends not means”, though that’s a big part of it.

Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. Wildebeest runs on top Cloudflare's Supercloud, uses Workers, Pages, Durable Objects, Queues, the D1 database to store metadata and configurations, Zero Trust Access to handle authentication and Images for media handling.

Can build and release websites fully on Cloudflare stack. Wrangler & Miniflare are useful (nice template for it). Hono (nice starter template), Worktop & workers Go lib (template) seem like nice web frameworks built on top of Cloudflare workers.

Microsoft's internal company-wide REST API design guidelines. Teams at Microsoft typically reference this document when setting API design policy. They may additionally create documents specific to their team, adding further guidance or making adjustments as appropriate to their circumstances.

If you're a SaaS entrepreneur, now is a good time to do a service check on your product team productivity. What would it do for your prospects if you could ship more, and faster, with fewer folks? Have you just followed trends blindly because that's what worked for Facebook or Google?

A scientific journal club is a dedicated meeting where researchers gather to discuss publications from peer-reviewed journals. These meetings help researchers keep up with current findings, exercise their critical thinking skills, and improve their presentation and debate abilities.

Yellow is a really tricky color when it comes to contrast. As you can see my current yellow color on a white background and white text on my yellow color fails all tests, even the large text one.

This is what I call the dark yellow problem: trying to come up with a shade of yellow to make it accessible and align with other colors in the palette. But there’s just no such a thing as a “dark yellow”. Yellow, by definition, needs to stay light.

Rust is a great language for building performant production systems. If you are prototyping, iterating with customers, or just unsure in the product direction - you are probably going to waste valuable time with Rust.

Primer Prism is a tool for creating cohesive, consistent, and accessible color palettes

There is so much room for creative expression on the web! Standardizing UIs makes sense for large software companies — but please, let’s hold the line with the WWW also being a space for you and me to make weird little sites.