FeedCity

Guy Kawasaki blogs one of the more thoughtful takes on Facebook’s “move fast and break things”:

Today, what you break tends to matter. Systems are bigger, platforms are interconnected, and the consequences of failure travel farther and faster than they used to. What once felt like harmless iteration can now trigger lasting damage.

Marcin’s history of “molly guards” in hardware and software:

Old-school computing has a term “molly guard”: it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.

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Frameworks like React are often perceived as accelerators, or even as the only sensible way to do web development. There’s this notion that a more “modern” stack (read: JS-heavy, where the JS ends up running on the user’s browser) allows you to be more agile, release more...

Looking forward to going to State Of The Browser in ten days.

I spoke at it eight years ago and I still like what I said then:

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I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts: I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus. I then explored a few mo...

Not long now ’till Web Day Out — just three weeks! It’s also not that long until the start of a new financial year so if you’ve got training budget that needs to be used this year, send your team to Web Day Out. Not only is it excellent value for money, it’s also going...

In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.

Your favorite local improv team Bizzo! returns to the Rat for an hour of hilarious improv comedy, along with a few of their friends.

And it’s totally free (with a one drink minimum)!

Come on out to see Bizzo! And also friends! I’ll be playing with Bizzo!!

Tickets (free RSVP): https://www.theratnyc.com/event-details/bizzo-friends-2

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I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE. I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they ...

Brent Simmons wrote on his linkblog about Terry Godier’s new RSS reader, Current:

Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news, RSS readers ought to be a UI playground in the way Twitter clients once were, where innovation and experimentation are normal and celebrated.

As small developers, even when we compete in the same space, we link to each other. We share something positive or unique about what the other person is working on. I exchanged a few emails with Terry leading up to Current’s release and I feel really good about what he’s bringing to RSS, even though I’m releasing my own feed reader soon too!

Current has now cracked the top 10 paid apps in the App Store. Incredible. $10 up-front pricing is such a throwback to the old App Store and I love it.

I saw a product announcement from Jake Spurlock -- a new feed reader called Today. From the description sounds well-thought-out. He explains -- "Google killed Reader in 2013. I've been chasing that feeling ever since. So I built it." I also know someone named John Spurloc...

New account on Twitter: DWiner43240. The old one dating back to the dawn of time is disabled, so at least the new owners can't post anything there, if I understand correctly.

This is an excellent one-stop shop of interface patterns:

This is an organic collection of common JS patterns that can be replaced with just HTML, CSS, and no, or very low, JS. As HTML and CSS continue to mature, this collection should expand.

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I really enjoyed this conversation with the creator of Claude Code.

Started watching Lonesome Dove tonight. Don’t think I’ve seen it since it first came out, but I remember it having an impact. Still would like to read the book one day. 📺

Update. I've been able to create an account on Twitter, but it's not @davewiner. If you're on Twitter, it would help if you'd RT the post. Thanks!