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I was surprised this article doesn't mention DrawIt [1], Bohemian Coding's first (?) drawing app designed for UI elements and icons, which would seem rather familiar to any Sketch user today…

Just showing a dot above every syllable, and highlighting stressed syllables could be a great start, as you would be able to see patterns visually. Another idea that came back to me now: rhyming words…

This looks interesting in its simplicity. A few years ago I thought quite a lot about what a writing environment for lyrics might look like, so here are some free ideas to steal. I’m on mobile right n…

If you like casual games like Frog Fraction, you might enjoy this completely normal office calculator.

Yes, there is an actual ethical crisis at Facebook. How it affects their bottom line or number of users is irrelevant.

What is this, accidental pirating?

Agree 100%, but I don’t understand how that leads to personas. Just talk about real people instead and you can get all of these benefits.

I’m aware that personas are often based upon insights from real people, but I question the value of repackaging the insights as a new, made up person. It introduces distractions and invites stereotyp…

But you’re not learning that from a persona, you’re learning it from talking to 100 real people. You can put that into a persona if you like, but it won’t give you any new knowledge.

Maybe they’re supposed to be individuals, but the problem is that unlike real individuals, you made them up. You can’t learn anything from them that you didn’t put into them yourself. Only a real pe…

How many impressions were you running if you were able to measure a 2% difference?

I would like to have a GAN brush in Photoshop. Let me pick a color, brush size, etc like usual, but gently interpret what I paint in the direction of the GAN output, similar to the effect of a texture…

What little pair programming experience I have makes me think it’s great to do now and then, but maybe not all day every day. You get to know your team members, share skills, see different perspective…

Can eval ever increase performance? I’m thinking that for some types of abstractions you can end up with highly nested, indirect calls, and if you can instead generate new code as needed, maybe it cou…

Well, let’s file this under the category of obvious research findings?

Sure, but that’s a linguistic trick. That sentence implies a completely different meaning for the word “for”. When I say JSX was created for React, I mean that it was created to be a part of the de…

I don’t think the comparison with JQuery vs JS is at all similar. JSX was created for React, and nearly every time you see React code it’s using JSX. Technically, each of them can be used separately, …

No, you don’t understand, an actual crisis is something that affects growth.

A while back I hacked together a crossword generator that works almost exactly like this, but using a wordlist to provide probabilities.