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What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…any level of abstraction. Actively shares what they learn, listens as readily as they speak, and openly names their knowledge gaps. Now that so much of our work happens alongside agents, and in pairs,… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…it had been in vain. The pain on his face made it hard to listen to what he was saying. The unexplained hollow feeling in my heart made it harder. Gail. Where is Gail? The question took all my… [more]
lab
Welcome to the lab! This is a list of simple experiments and projects that will be updated as new ones are made. Check them out, use them... whatever! Mazes a simple maze generator I made for my kids.… [more]
Spotify Archivist
…I described what I wanted the code to do: create a playlist per year that included the songs that I liked on that year, then optionally remove them from the likes songs list (always optionally for… [more]
the megaphone
…Think back to the last time you were part of a protest or listened to a song that features a megaphone in its recording. If it’s been a while, check the footnotes for examples. Think about that sound.… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…adjusted humans, but actually creating good teams? The List of Measures Here's the list, and then we'll discuss them in greater detail: The Team: Ships things on time with minimal crunch time… [more]
Cultural Homogeneity
…innovation is likely similar. And just like we need generalists to help drive that innovation (see this New York Times article ), we need immigrants (who are cultural generalists, or must become them)… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…Cosmere novel, that had somehow slipped through my reading list until this week. I was reading an article suggesting some ideas for how to jump into the Cosmere novels and they mentioned that Elantris… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…risk. ↩ I remember sitting around tables long after dinner listening to my Grandfather tell stories, mostly made up, about our relatives and ancestors. My father had an ongoing series of characters… [more]
Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
…posse from afar whose story pushed back against such simplistic thinking." Besides those profound thoughts it's just a fun fun ride that is over as quickly as a ride on a bronco's back. [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…this book was destined to find its way into my reading list. "The Road to Valor" delves into the life of Gino Bartali, one of the great Italian road racers. Bartali's claim to fame lies… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…normal reading to cruise through these. Here’s the list, along with short reviews. Wound up with right around 40 books for the year, which is maybe a little less than I would like, but not bad… [more]
2020: A year
…- Ed Catmull This one made it onto my required reading list for team leads. There are so many powerful insights into building innovative organizations in this book. Been slowly incorporating parts of… [more]
A Simple QR Code Based System for Organizing Your Boxes
…in the browser. Slides also are a nice form factor for a list of items, and other information and can link back and forth to each other. Ok, so here are the things that you need to make this work. A… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
This is going to be a pretty straightforward list of what tech related reading I did this year. It doesn’t include hundreds of blog posts and forum discussion. I’ll break it into two… [more]
monument
…The way that this works in monument is that every route listens for an event, we manage data through events, and custom event creation is easy. This makes development awesome and allows for… [more]
So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.
…history degree holder. It’s going to be hard to listen to people cite Fox News since you learned to detect bias in materials. Press on, and don’t worry about making people mad every once… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…Semicolon. As I was driving into work this morning I was listening to this interview on my way into work in which John McWhorter was talking about the evolution of the english language over time. One… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
…concepts that I roughed out on my own over time. A linked list for instance. I can tell you exactly when I discovered the first linked list I ran into. I can also tell you that it was years, yes… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…signatures are as simple as adding a comma separated list of names to your method declarations. For instance: method( var1, var2, var3, writeln(var1 .. var2 .. var3)) The consistency of this makes it… [more]
Learning the Trade
I thought I would throw together a list of resources I have found interesting and useful when it comes to building the internet. This is by no means exhaustive and will be updated over time as I find… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…single layout in a static mockup completely unrealistic. 4. Fonts Most design tools come from a print design pedigree. Which means they are really good at displaying fonts. Browsers are… [more]
On To New Horizons
…at the bottom of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Which as a cyclist is kind of a big plus ;-) Mostly I’m excited about tackling some new challenges, building a product again, after almost two years of… [more]
The Problem of Over Communication
…that person is quickly allocated to the delete list. We might skim the subject to ensure it is another forward, but we go no farther than that. We all do it, it is a defense mechanism that allows us… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…in the face of consensus and data is showing off Listen first [more]
Line-Height... lineheight... line-height
…to draw half a pixel. At least as far as I know… Realistically this is more of an interesting discovery, and less of a problem. Unless you are doing some calculation based on line-height in… [more]
Current Projects Update
I realized tonight that I have a whole bunch of projects lying around that aren't mentioned anywhere here on designfrontier. So to remedy that I decided to put together this quick article. RandPop : a… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…was decreased, in some cases dramatically. I remember listening to a lesson in design school about the cost of manufacturing pots in China and how it was cheaper to produce a pieced, welded, hollow… [more]
Trust and the Box
…Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center(jsc) listening to Milt Heflin, one of jsc’s Associate Directors, describe some of the history that happened there to a group of educators… [more]
A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies
Recently at work we went through a security review. It was a great learning experience to have outside contractors try and break into the web application. Found several things that I didn't expect and… [more]