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andersco

476 karma · joined October 24, 2019

Developer, UX Designer, Entrepreneur. Open to new opportunities, either as technical co-founder or contract work.

More about me at: https://www.anders.co/ Contact: hi at anders dot co

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andersco··on An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]
This seems to imply that answers are binary, either obsolete or not, while in my experience they are often are only partially outdated. How is that treated in this study? Additionally, I find that for high traffic answers someone will often have posted an update to the obsolete response.
andersco··on Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots
My biggest surprise re. this story is that I don’t recall having seen anything about it in US media. Was I just not paying attention, or was it truly ignored by the likes of the NYT?
andersco··on NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers
How will these tools in fact enable a developer to ship a better design? As a developer with limited design skills, I find that the problem is not finding tools, but rather knowing how to use them, eg what font to choose, what color palette to pick etc.
andersco··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
This article reinforces one of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a developer - be careful, even suspicious of shiny new things - only after the sheen has faded after extensive use and they no longer are the new coolness is it usually safe to consider them for anything other than a toy project.
andersco··on Most tech content is bullshit
Ha, I just posted something similar almost at the same time, but you said it better.
andersco··on Most tech content is bullshit
This is true for all types of content - the art is to develop a sense of smell for quality content. And to do that you have to first have been exposed to a lot of bullshit.
andersco··on The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020
This is front end only so not really a complete stack.
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