Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Healthy Disdain for Technology

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I'm convinced the reason so many successful projects use PHP, is not because of any inherent nature of the language. I think it's...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Humility in Software Development

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I think many software projects would end better if we developers would say these things more often: No, we can’t get that much work d...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Is Your Codebase a Hotel Room or a Home?

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I got some strong reactions to a tweet I wrote last week: Unsurprisingly (thank you 140 characters), some took it as a dig against contr...
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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...
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