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  • “You choose the web you want. But you have to do the work.” Brent Simmons: You Choose

    https://inessential.com/2019/10/29/you_choose
  • Really looking forward to the #LISA19 conference next week. Here’s where I’m pretty sure I’ll be… lisa19.sched.com/paulroub

  • As I begin preparing my #CodeMash talk in earnest, I’m equally grateful that (a) they accepted one of my submissions and (b) they only accepted one of my submissions.

  • “…working together as a single mob, we saw some incredible improvements in the way our team worked together, the speed of our delivery, and the quality of the systems that we built” hidigital.solutions/blog/our-path-to-mobbing

  • I believe Azure DevOps has achieved Peak Dialog Box here. Dialog box titled "Cancel", with question "do you want to cancel?" and two buttons, each labeled "Cancel"

  • My earbuds are in the shop, because the future is weird.

  • The relaunched tilde.club mailing list is… can a massive group mail thread be “charming”?

  • I am “I once blogged about philanthropic ways to wrangle a Gmail invitation” years old.

  • A thought I’ve been running with lately: give the users better tools than you give yourself. Make the end-user UI so nice that you’d rather use it yourself than your site’s admin interface. An admin is just someone who can use those tools on anyone’s content.

  • Matching form posts in the Pretenders mock HTTP server

    I’ve used the Pretenders “Fake servers for testing” on a number of work and personal projects, with generally good results. But I’ve wished that it was easier to write tests against different HTML form post contents.

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