We live in the age of Code Abundance. It’s never been easier to write, run, and subsequently share a piece of code. The whole Github + software eating the world phenomenon of the past 5 years has increased both the amount of code as well as its applications. Stepping back, it’s also clear that...
I threw this out on Twitter: @StartupLJackson If a manager can get 2x out of a team of 10, that’s 10x right there. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) May 12, 2015 Despite how it sounds, I wasn’t being flippant, but it is a succinct way to think about management, particularly how managers impact their teams...
Common wisdom tells us that software development requires constant learning. Particularly, client-side development (web and mobile) iterates so fast that its designers, engineers, and product folk have to stay up-to-date with the latest advances. “Expertise”...
This tweet came across my timeline today on what an extremely automated road network could look like, with autonomous cars self-navigating through busy intersection: Looks impressive to the naked eye, doesn’t it? Square colleague and fellow Quora Top Writer Tim Morgan had more nuanced, engineering-minded perspective: Like plane autopilots, it wouldn't be...
I've been an advocate of JavaScript client-side frameworks for some time. Their true value is in managing complexity: as an application grows more complex and incorporates more functionality, frameworks provide a level of...
The internet never forgets. If nothing else, the Wayback Machine does a dutiful job of saving mostly coherent snippets of the web across an impressive breadth of time. I was reminded again a couple weeks...
