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Ryan Singer (@rjs)

Twitter Bio:: UI design, code, and product management at 37signals.
Location:: Chicago, IL
Website:: http://feltpresence.com

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Performance As Design

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Too often, any talk of web performance quickly ventures into the land of heavy geekery. Terms like DNS lookups, Gzipping, minifying, far future expires headers, caching, ETags and more are thrown around and consequently lose the attention of most non-techy people. This perpetuates a mentality that performance is solely a technical concern that only developers need to concern themselves with. It’s time for us to treat performance as an essential design feature, not just as a technical best practice.From time to time I get asked what I do for a living. Whenever I mention that I work in mobile, I’ve had people immediately react FACEBOOK SUCKS!Why

Some things I've learnt about programming

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I've been programming for over 30 years from machines that seem puny today (Z80 and 6502 based) to the latest kit using languages that range from BASIC, assembly language, C, C++ through Tcl, Perl, Lisp, ML, occam to arc, Ruby, Go and more.

The following is a list of things I've learnt.

0. Programming is a craft not science or engineering

Programming is much closer to a craft than a science or engineering discipline. It's a combination of skill and experience expressed through tools. The craftsman chooses specific tools (and sometimes makes their own) and learns to use them to create.