Once your code is functional and well tested, you still have an obligation to make it beautiful.
Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order)
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Metagames and Containers
Read this!
What Second Life can teach your datacenter about scaling Web apps
Very reasonable advice
Not a waste of time: Ste Curran's keynote for the 2010 Global Game Jam
More a video than a keynote, but very very awesome.
For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the ‘average person’. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort.
Future Shock
Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money
Yes, it’s a list, but a good checklist of what constitutes a great workplace for a developer.
In the year 2010 everyone wears a jumpsuit and shoes.
2010: Living In the Future | the book
Which got me thinking about a new metric, the RPE or “roughly per engineer”.
Counting Things, and RPEs - Laughing Meme