James Rantanen
@JARinteractive
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when someone confidently says "we need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch", what they mean is "i don't know how to read and navigate this". look for the person who tells you how to rewrite parts of it without breaking the running system. they'll be quiet and sound unsure
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Good devs are curious: they explore context before they get to work. None of that happened, under the assumption that “I’m so smart, I can figure everything out on my own, quickly.” You see this a lot with junior devs or folks who haven't had to maintain large systems over time
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Laughter diffuses tension. You can have that tough architecture discussion, and then laugh together and it reduces stress. Job satisfaction is the #1 predictor of organizational performance. (these things happen together) @holly_cummins #YowLondon
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18 songs that display Mimi Parker as the beating heart of @lowtheband We remember the musician's eternal qualities through some of her most memorable performances https://t.co/VkEGYHhTku
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The music world was quietly rocked this weekend when news broke that Mimi Parker – drummer, vocalist and founding member of Low – had passed away.
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*when bridging SwiftUI and UIKit* Questions career choices
*when writing SwiftUI* This would be so much easier in UIKit 😡 *when writing UIKit* This would be so much easier in SwiftUI 😡 #iOSDev #iOSDevelopment #swiftLang
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Tech industry forgot that A/B tests and metrics are not product vision or the end goal. If the vision is to be virtual public town square or whatever it makes sense to change direction. You are not going get there with a/b micro-optimizations.
Changing the logged out home page of Twitter to show more content is likely one of those “easy fixes” that has symbolic effect but very little to no metrics effect. I ran A/B tests on this in 2010. Usually the best way to grow Twitter active users is make people sign up first
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Software tends to favor additive, bolted on, isolated feature development over integrated, interconnected, holistic improvement. Because the former is fast and scalable and the latter is slow and demanding. I'd wait a few more years for something that "makes our hearts sing."
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I hope that's just a blip and nothing to worry about and that Steve's philosophy still applies, because there aren't many companies that are remotely interested in doing this in the first place: https://t.co/j23KaReyBd (I am worried though.)
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The “designer” and “engineer” labels don’t always apply so neatly. My current job is a combination of these roles, and I don’t think about design or engineering separately, but making great products holistically.
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While I was doing research for my Eads Bridge thread, I found out that streetcars used to run across the top deck until the rails were removed in 1942. It was pedestrians and streetcars on the top deck, heavy rail on the lower. As far as I'm concerned, the perfect bridge.
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Dueling Bee’s Knees with my favorite honey gins #beesKneesWeek @BarrHillGin @HatchDistilling @STLginclub
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Missouri was the only state in nation that canceled free grab-and-go food program for poor kids this summer. Pretty lights, though.
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a lot of kids today don’t realize what furniture used to look like for us (left) before they vastly improved the detail (right)
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I’ve been looking into the large content viewer APIs in SwiftUI and wrote a summary of what the large content viewer is and how we can use it to ensure readability of custom toolbar like buttons in larger accessibility text sizes.
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Make all parts of your app readable for users with low vision using the large content viewer APIs.
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We don’t need a whole plan. We need a vision, a direction; and at least one course of action to try right now.
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