

I'm a web developer, designer, and photographer. I love God, my wife and two wonderful children, pizza, and medium rare steaks (with mushrooms..mmm).
… shift away from conspicuous consumption and toward zen imperviousness to the tumult of capitalism. Now, it represents the exact opposite — it is the aesthetic of corporate products and offices, whose livelihood depends on your submission to a $159 pair of headphones.
Encourage developers to improve the application while working on their projects. Examples of improvements are creating reusable objects out of copypasta code and breaking up large objects that are difficult to maintain into smaller objects that individually are easier to reason about. Improve the database schema even if it hurts in the short term. Delete old and unused code. With the benefit of hindsight update the user interface to improve user experience — sometimes even just changing a word or two makes a big difference.