technology

I’ve found there’s a second set of things that also matter, but tend to fly under the radar: the things that don’t need to be done.

It has always been an opinionated piece of software, and using it as a CMS has always meant chafing against Automattic’s assumptions about how and why their software is used.

Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.

For a long time, the Lighthouse Performance Score was the page speed metric to track. Often, sharing a perfect 100 Performance Score was considered a sign of success. But as the page speed evolves, we need to critically evaluate if the metrics we’re using are still relevant and helpful.

Sometimes, though, a slippery slope is real. In the early days of the automobile, some critics feared cars would take over city streets — and that we’d get so addicted to car travel that we’d rebuild the whole country around cars. Those critics nailed it. That really did happen. The same thing goes with Facebook or other social media; some early critics predicted they’d poison social and civic life. Again: Nailed it.