Thoughts

Security by Obscurity is Weak

You should be able to publicly announce how your system is secured without compromising the security of your system.

Why You Should Always be Transparent on the Web

Being transparent is always a good thing. People will begin to trust you and, more importantly, your brand if you are consistently honest. Users will trust you more and hence be more inclined to read, or even buy, your stuff. But there is another…

When you can measure what you are speaking about…

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Kelvin

Beautiful is better than ugly…

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although…

Happiness was the Key to Life

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon