Link: Evan Collins' are.na collection on old design styles
Collection of vintage and historical design styles - https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/channels
Elliot Alker
Software engineer, technical writing, and digital garden
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Fast
“Being wrong might hurt you a bit, but being slow will kill you.” – Jeff Bezos I know that I can work quickly and well. I’ve done it before, and I’m always proud when I produce good work quickly. However I sometimes lose momentum and don’t work as quickly as I’d like. This post is what I find myself thinking about when I realise that I’m working too slowly. Can good work be done fast? Yes. Look at…
What are you optimizing for?
I was talking with a friend recently and I shared with them that I’m feeling quite bewildered about the future. This isn’t to say that I’m depressed, nor am I anxious, rather this feeling comes from the same place when one finishes a large project; I’ve been in what can only be described as a holding pattern whilst waiting for the previous chapter of my life to close, and now that it has, I’m…
Notes on Self Hosting
This past year I’ve started self hosting some services on a small home server. A lot of people have complex, expensive and rather overwhelming homelabs but my lone server setup falls on the cheaper and simpler end of the spectrum. Let’s start with the hardware, I run a second hand HP EliteDesk G2 800 Mini containing 8GB RAM, a 120GB SSD and an external 1TB USB 3.0 hard disk. I also run a Raspberry…
Notes on Software Engineering
Perfecting your craft is one of the most important things that you can do. You spend a large amount of your life at work, so you might as well be good at what you do. This page is a collection of resources that have helped me to become better at mine. Advice I’ve Recieved Find a mentor and learn everything that you can from them. Like a company needs different CEOs at different stages of the…