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Today is my last day as an Atom in the AO Molecule. In fact, this blog post is very likely my last act as an Atomic Object employee. This is a bittersweet moment to be sure. I’ve been with Atomic for seven plus years now, but my connection goes back even further. I knew Carl…
In “Among Six Types Of Failure, Only A Few Help You Innovate”, designer Jamer Hunt reacts to a trend he sees in the otherwise positive movement of embracing failure and lays out an intriguing vocabulary for different project failures.
Process kills developer passion: In short, you’re spending a lot of your time on process, and less and less actually coding the applications. I’ve worked on some projects where the test cases took two — or three — times as much time to code as the actual code, or where having to shoehorn in shims…
The Great Ephemeralization: …For example, a couple of years ago, Google waved a magic wand that transformed millions of Android phones into sophisticated navigation devices with turn-by-turn directions. This was functionality that people had previously paid hundreds of dollars for in stand-alone devices. Now it’s just another feature that comes with every Android phone, and…
List of unusual software bugs: A schrödinbug (named after Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment) is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked in the first place, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed….
Success, and Farming vs. Mining: If you farm, you’ll have to purchase seed up-front, and work on it for a season before you see any profits. And every season you’ll plow most [of] the profits (literally) back into the land and salaries and your mortgage. You husband the soil to ensure that it’ll keep providing…
Seth Godin, ‘A culture of testing’: Netflix tests everything. They’re very proud that they A/B test interactions, offerings, pricing, everything. It’s almost enough to get you to believe that rigorous testing is the key to success. Except they didn’t test the model of renting DVDs by mail for a monthly fee. And they didn’t test…
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object