Maybe the best “thoughtful” video I’ve seen from Ze. I was nodding so hard during the time he was talking about interviewing candidates.

“I’ve been wanting to learn/do more X but haven’t been asked to at work.” I’m sorry, what? You have a computer at home, you have the internet, what’s stopping you?

As someone who feels compelled to create and execute the ideas that come to me, I find it hard to see true passion in those who don’t share that trait. The ones that are passionate are the ones I want to be around as friends and work with as colleagues.

Some really solid notes here – glad that much of this is re-affirmation for me rather than a “whoa, I need to re-think X” situation!

Please care about your passwords.

This post is part of the thread: Passwords – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post.

Great writeup on getting XHProf installed for profiling WordPress. I’ve only used XHProf casually, but I’m a big fan.

This looks interesting enough to me that I bought an Android phone on ebay this weekend to play around with it.

So we instituted a new rule: If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that’s awesome!” just once.

I really like this idea. I think it would encourage a new hire to feel less tentative – that they are allowed take initiative and pursue an idea. New ideas can be incredibly valuable to an organization.

I really enjoyed this talk by Anil Dash. Also available as an MP3 if you want to consume it as a podcast.

Yeah, the Astros look dreadful. But in truth, the Astros are amazing, and the talent differences between the Astros and the, I don’t know, Reds, individually, are barely there. The players on the Astros are among the very best baseball players in the entire world, and if you watched them just practicing in your neighborhood or something, you’d be blown away.

I love how this post encourages us to take a step back and look at the big picture.

I’d like to thank Google for the additional revenue we’ll be getting from future browser compatibility development and testing.

An interesting note about WebKit and Chromium’s multiprocess architecture.

Brent is talking to developers in his follow-up to this post, but end-users should care just as much about making sure they can control and own the data they put into apps and services.

Michael Tsai curates and excerpts a damning collection of posts outlining developers’ problems trying to use iCloud.

I trust iCloud with my contacts because that’s one part of MobileMe that actually worked, but that’s all I use it for (by choice). I tried using Notes with iCloud sync once. I typed out an email draft for 35 minutes in it on my iPhone, then launched Notes on my iPad and watched everything I had typed disappear. I cringe whenever I see other people using Notes, I hope they have better luck than I did.

This looks handy for browsing and as a lightweight developer tool. (thanks One Thing Well)

This is pretty darn awesome. (thanks Steve)

I only started using this today, but it appears to do what it says: eject externals drives before sleep and re-mount them on wake. Very handy if you have a laptop plus external drive set-up like I do.

(thanks One Thing Well)

A thoughtful post about a situation that sounds like a real mess for everyone involved.