King & McGaw Developers

Steve brought Jeffrey Veen’s Design For Disaster talk to my attention last week and I’m still thinking about it.

Veen is a real veteran of the web and an impressive storyteller. In this talk he recounts a specific disaster in Typekit’s history, and how procedures set up before and after, as well as parts of the company culture had an effect on its outcome.

Some more bits and pieces I’ve enjoyed recently:

• In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity
• Shipping beats perfection. Be open. Share your work. Anybody can fix anything. Development philosophy at Khan Academy.
• 108 Years of Herman Miller (in 108 Seconds)
• There’s nothing like a tidy codebase
• HTTP logic tree, illustrated
• “I’m adding a meeting” should really be “I’m subtracting an hour from your life.”
• “42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy”
• “The Secret to Your Success? Make Others Successful”