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  • 🔗 Breaking Down Tasks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

    Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this post fills the gap, and explains in detail how I break down projects into a task list.
    Being able to "pattern match" from experience is a real cheat code. That these skills require time and experience is one of the major reasons why we encourage feature leading early on – exercise the planning muscle and build that intuition.
  • 🔗 Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?

    And what the latest swing from skinny to wide tells us about ourselves.
    Time for me to dig out my old JNCO jeans.
  • 🔗 There are no Original Ideas. But...

    Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.

    And it’s that process that is the magic.
    That process, to me, feels like (how I imagine) making music. You get in a groove, riff with your teammates and you build something great.
  • 🔗 Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream

    Casey at his best.
  • 🔗 Click Around, Find Out

    Click around. Or tap around. Or do whatever you need to do in the browser of your choice. If we want the indie web to flourish, the very first thing people need to get used to is actually browsing the web again.
    We call them web browsers for a reason. You're meant to browse.

    My sense is that the recommendation engines for articles has the same flaw as music recommendation engines that gets people stuck in a loop. i.e. When given the option to pick between "everything" you mostly end up visiting the same 5 sites or listening to the same handful of albums because there's too much choice and we can't decide. They try to get you to explore a bit, the recommendation engines don't carry the authority or weight that a friend or blog you might follow, so you're back to the usual rotation in no time.

    Want to browse more but not sure where to start?  Visit to ooh.directory and start clicking. You're sure to find something of interest.
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