Many companies are struggling with the speed of their development - especially Product Managers or Project Managers. The typical claim is: If the team was faster, the product or project would stay within time and scope. However, that belief is wrong.

The article “The Art of interrupting Software Engineers”, has recently hit the frontpage on Hacker News. The article makes the following point:

Protesters in Hong Kong are using laser pointers against the Face Recognition AI, and the images look disturbingly like any dystopian sci fi film out there.

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When I recently bought an item on Amazon, I was surprised to see that it has been shipped with Amazon - as in, Amazon does the delivery, and not DHL, Hermes or any other well-known logistics company.

Estimates are a frequent source of discussion in the industry. This article helps you identifying core issues people have when it comes to estimates, and how to address them.

Tim Kadlec makes a great point about the Ethics of Web Performance:

There is a growing gap between what a high-end device can handle and what a middle to low-end device can handle. When we build sites and applications that include a lot of CPU-bound tasks[…], at best, those sites and applications become painfully slow on people using those more affordable, more constrained devices. At worst, we ensure that our site will not work for them at all.