I wanted to diagnose some SEO problems with a site that was entirely client side rendered in JavaScript. It wasn't behaving the way I'd expect from previous experience so wanted to run an experiment in a controlled environment to understand what was happening.
In a recent newsletter, Jim was talking about lean delegation. In news that shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention it turns out the Germans have words for this: Auftragstaktik and Befehlstaktik.
In an area where there have been a lot of sensationalist things flying around, this is a good - measured - article about the deadlock between developer experience (DX) and user experience (UX).
Whilst discussing Mastodon with Ben Seven he was asking about account verification: if someone were to sign up to an instance with the username @decadecity how would he know if I'm the real @decadecity not one of all the other @decadecites who are just imitating.
I found this podcast with Tom Dale talking about Ember version 3 and how Ember's philosophy compares to other JS frameworks very interesting. There's a lot in Ember's philosophy that's reminiscent of what I like about Django.
The tech industry is inward looking, it tends to take inspiration from what other tech companies are doing and can miss previous solutions to problems it is facing. As well as looking at other industries these solutions can come from other periods of history.
Some items I've found interesting recently.
If you are sending out newsletters then you are creating content that could help you out for SEO if you were to publish them on your website. This is a pareto outline of how to present your newsletters.
The other day, after experiencing a white screen of death, Markos asked a good question. I couldn't fit my thoughts into twitter so I've tried to articulate them a bit better here.
I've been asked about the practicalities of getting into contracting a few times lately so, in order to stop copy/pasting this from email to email, I've turned it into this blog post.
