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By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

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Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

"MVP" implies a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn". Instead, make the first version SLC: Simple, Lovable, and Complete".

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The Small Web Renaissance, Finger, Gopher and Gemini. How they work and what makes them different from the modern Big Web.

There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.

Hi my name is Lu (or Luke) (either’s fine).I make slightly surreal videos, talks and tools.

git rebase: what can go wrong?

In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing software as I’ve used it in many of my projects, and which has turned out to be very successful.