Addy Osmani
Person on 4 sites
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Computing is an onion, and the more layers of it you can peel back and understand, the better you can build for the constrained machines real people are using. (opens korrents.com)
“if you treat computing as this onion where you just keep peeling back the layers, there's always something interesting behind the scenes. And the more of those layers that you can peel back and understand, I think in…”
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Very few developers understand memory management, and that is why the state of the art in memory debugging has barely moved in years. (opens korrents.com)
“I would say, sometimes, I don't know if it's controversial, that very few developers understand memory management. And that makes it even harder to debug memory problems. And so the state of the art around memory…”
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Performance work used to mean half a day reading traces before writing a single fix, and language models have collapsed that step to minutes. (opens korrents.com)
“I remember anytime I would work with a big site on their performance problems, uh you could easily spend half a day, um you know, just looking at traces before you've even written any fixes at all. And now that we have…”
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Computing is an onion, and the more layers of it you can peel back and understand, the better you can build for the constrained machines real people are using. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Deep Work (opens rcmnd.app)
“Minimize distractions and shallow work. Carve out long stretches for intense focus and complexity. Build rituals and routines to regularly do deep work. Protect this time.”
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Atomic Habits (opens rcmnd.app)
“Break down big goals into small, manageable habits. Focus on processes, not outcomes. Create obvious cues and routines for habits to make them easy to start.”
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Multipliers (opens rcmnd.app)
“Empower and challenge team members instead of micromanaging. Get people thinking and taking initiative. Create space for people to contribute beyond their official roles. Draw out their skills.”
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Deep Work (opens rcmnd.app)