Because I Can’t Not Make
I do love me some Nick Offerman.
Don’t Be Late
I’ll be the first to say that UX is hard, but honestly now, do I really need to specify a dinner reservation time-of-arrival down to the second?
If I had to speculate, the implementor probably just copied an existing time input widget without consideration of the use case. Situations like this are a reminder of a downside of code reuse; yes it might say some development time, but is it best for the customer?
Left Hand, Meet Right Hand
Earlier this week I got an email from a recruiter. In itself, that’s not a remarkable occurrence, I’ve gotten 263 such emails since I started tracking them back in 2015. What made this one funny is that it was from my current employer.
I’m regularly asked about the corporate culture at AWS, and a common way I’ve described it is being like a large collection of small startups. This decentralization has a number of benefits, not least of which it only rarely feels like I’m working for a curmudgeonly big business (especially when compared to my last large company gig). But every once in a while the disadvantages show.