URLs = independence; that’s why they are so important. I’m curious to see how the next generation, one that has grown up with the web, sees these things.

This is great. We see this sort of thing at work all the time – people communicate very differently over different mediums and in different situations.

A big +1 from me on this one.

I used to do primarily front-end web development (UI coding) before getting into the back-end stuff. The back-end stuff is less fiddly and feels more elegant. Whenever I do front-end work it always feels like I’m writing more code that I should be (generally to handle lots of edge cases). But I love creating a great user experience, and that means fiddly front-end code.

This has been on my mind recently as well. I was at a family reunion a few weeks back and sharing the photos from the event is way harder than it should be.

I preach the same thing, my reasons don’t just include readability, but simplicity and searchability too.

Where are we handling 200 responses?

I’ll search for “200”… there it is.

I especially encourage this in WordPress dev when relating to WordPress post meta keys, filter and action names, etc. It makes refactoring easier too.

I don’t think I’m $1500 worth of curious, but I’d love to play with one of these.

Pitch perfect. (thanks Webb)

This starts next week for me (after vacation). I needed this as a kick in the patoot; I’m not making progress at the speed I want to on my current project and a big part of that is context switching costs for days when I don’t get to code. We’ll see how I do.

An interesting self-exploration by Anil.

My retreat a few years back with Dan and Scott was awesome. I can see how doing it with just your own team would also be awesome; in a different way. There are definitely some ideas that require distance to soak in them properly.

Integrating analytics into my next project is high on my list. Real usage data is entirely different than data reported by a small segment of users.