Gregory Alvarez shares his experience living without social media for 3 years and without a smartphone for 2 years

Basecamp’s approach is very different from a typical Russian IT company’s approach in a way that asynchronous communication is preferred over synchronous communication. The described practices look sensible and reasonable.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev about annual cosmetic UI changes on operating systems.

Why UI development is not as easy as it seems.

Detailed privacy-minded comparison of VPN and email providers.

Exposure of all marketing bullshit from VPN companies: why VPN doesn’t contribute to your privacy and what are valid reasons to use it.

Case studies demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization on business metrics.

Answers the questions:

• Which computer science subjects should you learn, and why?
• What are the best learning resources for each subject?

Why we quote ideas and how waiving quotes can be useful.

Why programmers often want to rewrite the code from scratch and why they shouldn’t do it.

A knowledge of algorithms is highly overrated.

To a great extent the act of coding is one of organization. Refactoring. Simplifying. Figuring out how to remove extraneous manipulations here and there.

You can build more by focusing on the end-user experience instead of the architecture of the program that delivers that experience.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Static site generators cause frustration and shift your attention to anything but writing. Editing raw HTML files might help you overcome this problems.

How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys.

How lack of moderation affects online communities.

Why URIs should not change and how to design them to last longer.

Quitting something is good and you should not regret it.

A thorough introduction to statecharts.

What is Adaptive Bitrate Streaming, how does it work, what problems does it solve and how to implement it properly.

A weekly advice podcast for software developers.

How a bunch of YouTube engineers secretly deployed an IE6 deprecation banner to production in 2009.

See Learning English with cartoons.