Things I Like
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Maybe it was wanting people to stop asking, ‘Where are you from?’ Maybe I wanted to become invisible in that particular way. Or maybe it was my subconscious wishing that I could belong in this beautiful Art Nouveau city with its rhodochrosite government palace and the sometimes-crumbling statuary of its eerie necropolis and the cobbled streets of my neighborhood, San Telmo, festooned with graffiti. The Sunday flea markets, giving way to the tango milongas, which look like a painting of Paris in the twenties. The glittering Teatro Colón, an Italianate splendor of red velvet and stained glass and gold, surrounded by svelte, elegant palm trees. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a place where people sit elbow-to-elbow late into the night, sawing through hunks of delicious local steak cooked to the Platonic ideal of medium-rare, nothing for seasoning but a perfect flame?
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Really interesting look at the changes to the technology behind the New York Times redesign. I love it when companies share this type of information, so helpful to understand what's happening behind the scenes.
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If there’s one thing I hope we see in the upcoming year it’s this sort of maturity: that we’ll stop celebrating sites simply for being responsive and instead view it as just another (important!) characteristic of a well-built site.
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Elliot Jay Stocks makes some fantastic points about living a quieter life, concentrating on offline things.
As 2013 progressed, I found myself caring less and less about social media, less and less about online debates in the web community, and less and less about the representation of myself online. Partly by accident and partly by design, I became quieter.
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Jay Fanelli on The Pastry Box Project
Spend more time with your spouse, your kids, and your friends. And stop eating lunch at your desk. No one dies wishing they’d put in more time at the office.
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In all likelihood, the independent web will never be able to match the power and reach of the silos. But that won’t stop me (and others) from owning our own words. If nothing else, we can at least demonstrate that the independent path is an option—even if that option requires more effort.
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So, I’m doubling down on my personal site in 2014. In light of the noisy, fragmented internet, I want a unified place for myself—the internet version of a quiet, cluttered cottage in the country. I’ll have you over for a visit when it’s finished.
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Rebecca Murphey on the Pastry Box
Whenever I give a talk about refactoring a codebase, someone in the audience always asks, ‘How do I convince my company that this is as important as the next big feature or deadline?’ My answer is simple: for the sake of the health of your team and your project, you can’t afford to not pay attention to these things. If the powers that be don’t believe you, well, we’re hiring.