Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Apple’s Flat Design: When Clarity Goes Out of Style

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I’m not the first Apple fan to take notice of the sliding quality of the company’s user interface design in the post-Jobs years. I remembe...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Developer-on-Developer Crime

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Recently, I read articles by Mike Anderson and Adam Waselnuk lauding the unusually helpful error messages produced by the Elm compiler. ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Stop Validating Phone Numbers

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Ah, the siren song of the phone number field validator… Can you imagine if you asked someone to write down their phone number for you...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Money Talks

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It seems like there is stigma in the software development world around looking at money as a central motivator for one’s career choices. You...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Any Questions for Us?

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There was an article yesterday about a software developer who had been turned down by 38 companies and went through 120 interviews in a 2-3...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

CX: Candidate Experience

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I’m not the first person to compare technical interviews to hazing—you know, those painful and arbitrary rituals that fraternities and soror...
Monday, February 29, 2016

What Does a Tech Company Look Like?

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Many software shops are desperate to mirror the popular notion of how these places operate: loud, boisterous bullpen type arrangements, w...
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