[…] todo se hunde, todo se lo traga el tiempo, pero a los primeros que se traga es a los chilenos.
Roberto Bolaño – Nocturno de Chile
[…] todo se hunde, todo se lo traga el tiempo, pero a los primeros que se traga es a los chilenos.
Roberto Bolaño – Nocturno de Chile
As programmers we construct an abstract mental model of the program we’re writing. Bugs are discrepancies between our mental model of the program and the program itself. The program is doing something we don’t expect. The program isn’t wrong. The program can’t be wrong. It’s doing what it’s been told to do. What’s incorrect is our mental model. Once we understand the current state of the program, we can adjust it.
The art of debugging is systematically and creatively synchronizing the mental model with the actual program.
How to help a student get unstuck
Perhaps the best starting point for diving into the schema feature of Yoast SEO it’s this example use-case, which it’s pretty clear using just 2 code snippets 🙂
Valuable Lessons Learned in ElasticPress — an interesting read to learn new tricks for searching with ElasticSearch.
When I first read the title “Design principles for the web” I thought this was going to be yet another post about web design trends… fortunately I was completely wrong.
On this article (there’s also a video) Jeremy Keith takes us from detecting bias in analytics to design methodologies to a discussion of the conceptual foundations of the web and the deep contrasts with today’s over-engineering trends of trying to bend and control the user experience even at the expense of universality/ubiquity — in the words of Eric Meyer, “the web does not value consistency. The web values ubiquity”.
Over time, it becomes apparent that design it’s less about “drawing” or creating a graphic solution and more about understanding the problem and weighting the solutions — “Once you get to Figma, most of the hard work should already be done”
On Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor, Cory Doctorow compares Apple, Microsoft, Google to warlords willing to defend your digital security… unless they’re compelled to turn on you by a government power, which, it turns out, happens quite a lot. A good reminder that all that sensitive information that they’re collecting on you, can and will be used against you, just as that seemingly well-intentioned control over your device will be abused.
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change
Miles Davis — Birth of the Cool
My good friend Francisco Vera recently released a new version of his personal site where he’s continuously sharing his work and insights on the craft of experience and service design. You can also check the source code for his template on GitHub.
This performant front-end archicture article it’s an excellent high-level technical overview of the entire process for showing a web page, from downloading resources to rendering and prefetching.