Web Components: have we not been here before?
Addy Osmani describes Web Components, of which an important part is custom tags...
Nesting is state
There are stylistic debates about how much nesting or indentation one should choose in code...
Ben Horowitz on wage-fixing
I am really, really enjoying Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things...
What Stack Overflow and Go have in common
I’ve been working at Stack for over three years now, and over the last six months or so I’ve been doing playing with a programming language called Go...
How I optimize conversations
I had a realization some years ago in working with a person at a previous firm...
Threshold thinking
I consider our industry’s current approach to ads to be wildly inefficient. Very “good” click-through rates are in the single-digit percentages, and more likely one or two orders of magnitude below that...
The trouble with interfaces in Go
I am working on a tool for generics-like functionality in Go. Despite what you may have heard, Go does have generic functionality, in that you can create (e...
New release of gen
I’ve a new release of gen, the generics-like tool for Go. It includes API changes so I suggest reading the changelog...
Another reason publishers should adopt SSL: referrers
I previously mentioned that advertising-based publishers should embrace SSL as a product upgrade, a service to their customer...
Publishers and SSL
Here’s a good article about why news sites on the web are slow to embrace SSL...