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Twitter has not 'rolled back to a server side architecture'

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Hacker News link to Twitter's blog post about their most recent bout of re-architecting reads "Twitter rolls Twitter.com Back to a Server-Side Architecture". If Twitter does indeed lose the glitchiness of the past several months with this re-re-architecture, then Pinterest will move up to the #1 spot on my list of Products I Love But Can't Stand The Implementation Of.

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Dear Amazon Kindle team,

Thursday, May 24, 2012

There are many things I love about my Kindle. However, there are some usage details that are very frustrating. As an engineer, I know that these problems are solvable, though I admit that #6 could get hairy. Might you consider prioritizing the following features? Thanks so much.

Love,

T

1) I'd like to be able to bulk edit my library contents from the "Manage Your Kindle" interface in my account panel on the desktop website. For example, if I want to delete multiple items, I'd like the option of selecting each of them and then clicking "delete" once.

2) I'd love to be able to read RSS on my eInk Kindle by signing into Google Reader on my Kindle and accessing my feeds directly.

3) It'd be cool if I could upload documents while I'm in the account panel on the website. Its ok if they're not available immediately - I can accept a few minutes of lag.

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How, as a developer, your day gets away from you

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

  • Start out looking for a library to build your project with, feeling like this feature is a piece of cake
  • Get pulled into a meeting about said feature
  • Leave meeting, have suggested that you might leverage existing feature instead of implementing a new library
  • While doing a feasibility analysis, have script running on existing feature crash your web inspector
  • Ping feature author for details
  • Be given site with documentation for existing library
  • Determine that its too complex for what you need, continue with your own chosen library
  • Find that a version of a dependency of your chosen library is required which is newer than the one you have installed
  • Go to talk to person who is working on upgrading said dependency, find they're busy
  • Decide to create the content architecture changes required for your project in the meantime
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