Daniel Santos

A lot of developers want simplicity in the same way that a lot of clients claim they want a fast website. You respond “OK, so we can remove some of these 17 Javascript trackers and other bloat that’s making your website horribly slow?” – no, apparently those are all critical business functionality.

In other words, they prioritise everything over... See more

I think the legendary Bob Ross said it best:

Just remember that you can always add more, but you can’t take it away.

He was talking about layering colors while painting, which in certainly more permanent than most software, but it still works wonderfully to guide us as developers. Tackle each task as you go, don’t increase your own overhead unless it... See more

The most straightforward way to improve your information diet is to develop a habit for meta-awareness; to pay attention to what you're paying attention to. When you find yourself reaching unprompted for your phone, or hovering over the Twitter icon, invoke the “10-10-10 rule:” ask yourself, if I consume this info, how will I feel about it in 10... See more

The human brain itself — that mysterious maker of metaphors — has through the ages been portrayed as (a) a hydraulic pumping system, (b) a clock, (c) a telephone switching network, (d) a digital computer, and, now, (e) a large language model. In constructing machines, we also construct ways of seeing the world, and ourselves.