notjustanymike

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by notjustanymike 2y ago
You have to be careful with that line of reasoning; I could rephrase it as "Why bother worrying about minorities?" People with disabilities cannot be treated like legacy browsers. They have no other option, and there are times whe
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
A very handy tool for spot checking, but also training. My benefit from this visualization will be demonstrating to non-technical how to people to think about accessibility (specifically screen readers). Half the challenge with WCAG is gett
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
I found the FitBod app during Covid and had a similar journey. I'd previously been a runner and also did some bouldering, and found that strength training was vastly more beneficial to my overall health. Strength, combined with some ca
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
> When a small business needs expert advice, they can almost always get what they need by hiring expert consultants. Yes let's create an outside dependency on mission critical elements with a business who makes money on billable hou
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
Amusingly it cost about as much as an Apple Vision Pro. Nice to see some things don’t change.
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
That’s at least $1,360 more than I’d pay for a carriage!
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
Living in Brooklyn, I always prefer to explore east/west instead of north/south. This is because the streets have trees, while the avenues are exposed. In the hot summer months you’ll have a delightful walk down Bergen, then absol
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by notjustanymike 2y ago
Well at least this was an issue with the Atlas V instead of Starliner. Progress?
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
I still miss working in Macromedia Director.
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
It's a process you follow to stop yourself from answering the question for them. Ask them to define success, what the obstacles are to it, what their options are to overcome it, and immediate next steps to take. Basically a modern vers
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Not an article, but I do frequently recommend the following: Multipliers - an excellent book on how to avoid becoming a stereotypical bad boss. Chapters are easy to read independently and have great summaries at the end. Crucial Conversatio
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
This is exactly the problem with Hudson Yards in NYC. Even now, the most likely image you'll see when searching for Hudson yards is of the rather terrible "Vessel" sculpture they plopped down in the middle. This is because al
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Out of all places, Bank of America actually does this right. Any large wire transfer requires re-entering your credentials.
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
If you've lived in NYC for the last decade this is completely obvious. First came CitiBike, then came Vision Zero, and now years later we have growing infrastructure to support new methods of transportation. Is it perfect? Oh god no. B
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
You walked through the most expensive neighborhood in all of Brooklyn, home to multi-million dollar brownstones and full floor condos. Try poking at some denser neighborhoods, the problems will become more evident.
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Trash cans aren't viable because of shortcomings in our infrastructure; we don't have alleyways. Large apartment buildings use dumpsters or basement trash rooms, but you can't exactly cart those out on to the sidewalk. Street
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
While I don't use chalk, I've found a professional mechanical pencil will usually produce better thinking than figma almost every time. There's an auditory and tactile element to drawing that really focuses my mind, whereas d
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
This is a really long article to say "Content dispersion is bad". Yeah, obviously. More so if you use a generic image like Waze. It's not a usability problem, it's a quality problem. Apple does just fine with full width
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Coincidentally the amount of time it takes to walk my dog in the morning.
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
♫ Tale as old as time, True as it can be ♫
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
I strongly recommend a standing desk paired with an ergomat. It's not the standing that's good for you, it's the moving. An ergomat promote that healthy bloodflow, plus it's pretty comfy. Good for long VR sessions too!
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
I tend to agree with this line of thinking, but it's a difficult problem to fix retroactively.
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
It creates a level of feature dependency on another company that makes me uncomfortable. It shouldn't because we already depend on products like HubSpot, Plausible, Pendo, and AWS. This feels different though; AI is far more integrated
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
So many missed opportunities for a small business. A code review should never be done in person; instead all communication should happen asynchronously through passive aggressive messages left in GitHub. If you're on bi-weekly sprints,
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Being a manager happens organically to some of us because the challenge of getting a system of people to work is an organic next step from getting a system of circuits to work. People create such interesting, unique, and unpredictable probl
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Senior Director here, I moved into people management from being a frontend developer (and still occasionally pop into that role, project depending...) I worry about your motivation for being a manager. I got into this role because I started
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Because truly no one willingly visits Slough
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
I took a look at this a few years ago when considering a tool. Back then it turned out every button on a ticket needed to query the server as to whether it had permission to show. Just a terrible architecture. We went with Asana. I miss the
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Do you have any thoughts on the ROLI?
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by notjustanymike 3y ago
Turns out gifs and analytics tracking pixels have a LOT in common.

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