<?php
/**
* Quotes Generator API
*
* Usage:
* Request: GET /quotes-api.php
* Response:
* {
* "quote": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.",
* "author": "Steve Jobs"
* }
*/
// Array of quotes
$quotes = [
["quote" => "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.", "author" => "Steve Jobs"],
["quote" => "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", "author" => "John Lennon"],
["quote" => "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", "author" => "Oscar Wilde"],
["quote" => "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.", "author" => "Albert Einstein"],
["quote" => "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.", "author" => "Winston Churchill"],
["quote" => "Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.", "author" => "Sam Levenson"],
["quote" => "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.", "author" => "Albert Einstein"],
["quote" => "What we think, we become.", "author" => "Buddha"],
["quote" => "The mind is everything. What you think you become.", "author" => "Buddha"],
["quote" => "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.", "author" => "Dalai Lama"]
];
// Choose a random quote
$random_index = array_rand($quotes);
$random_quote = $quotes[$random_index];
// Set response headers
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
header('Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: 0');
// Output the quote as JSON
echo json_encode($random_quote, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
exit;
?>
God gave humans intellect; not to surrender it to artificial minds is the key to freedom. Let AI be the servant, not the master; l the mind is free, the future shines bright. The weapon is in your hand — wield it, but do not become its slave
Right?
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Chris’ Corner: Doing a Good Job
This is a great story from Dan North about “The Worst Programmer I know”, Tim MacKinnon. It’s a story about measuring developer performance with metrics:
We were working for a well-known software consultancy at a Big Bank that decided to introduce individual performance metrics, “for appraisal and personal development purposes”. This was cascaded through the organisation, and landed in our team in terms of story points delivered. This was after some considered discussion from the department manager, who knew you shouldn’t measure things like lines of code or bugs found, because people can easily game these.
Scared? Maybe you can guess. Tim was very bad at metrics.
Tim’s score was consistently zero. Zero! Not just low, or trending downwards, but literally zero. Week after week, iteration after iteration. Zero points for Tim.
Why? Maybe you can guess again. Tim wasn’t playing that game, he was a true senior developer in the sense that he nurtured his team.
… he would spend his day pairing with different teammates. With less experienced developers he would patiently let them drive whilst nudging them towards a solution. He would not crowd them or railroad them, but let them take the time to learn whilst carefully crafting moments of insight and learning
Tim wasn’t delivering software; Tim was delivering a team that was delivering software.
Every organization is different though. Mercifully in the situation above, Dan protected Tim. But we can all imagine a situation where Tim was fired because of this silly measurement system. (That always reminds me of Cathy O’Neils Weapons of Math Destruction). Getting to know how the organization works, so you can work within it, is another approach that Cindy Sridharan advocates for. See: How to become a more effective engineer.
You can either complain and pontificate on Twitter on how the tech industry *should* ideally work, or you can learn how your org *really* works and what’s rewarded, and optimize for that.
Different organizations will have different paths to these answers. I’ll pluck off a few bullet points:
* exactly what technical skill you need to invest effort into getting better at, which will actually be rewarded
* how to build lasting relationships with other people on your team or organization that ultimately dictate the success of a project
* how to effectively pitch projects or improvements to leadership and actually see these through to completion
* how to weigh the pros and cons of technical choices in the larger context of the organizational realities and needs
* how to discern what’s achievable, and in precisely what time frame
Figure out who matters, what they care about, and how to effectively get things done. And don’t wait!
To build credibility, you need to demonstrate some impact early on, instead of waiting months to get the lie of the land before you start getting anything done. Chasing small wins and low-hanging fruit can be an easy path to productivity. Don’t underestimate their importance.
Another one I like in this realm of being a truly effective developer is Artem Zakirullin’s Cognitive load is what matters. A good developer can write code that themselves and others can read without being so complex that, well, you run out of mental capacity.
When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things.
That tracks for me. I start tracing how code works, and I’m all good and have it in my head, then it feels like right at the fifth logical jump, my brain just dumps it all out and I’m lost. https://blog.codepen.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cognitiveloadv6paper-1024x756.png I suspect it’s a talent of really great[...]
@html_codee
Chris’ Corner: Doing a Good Job
This is a great story from Dan North about “The Worst Programmer I know”, Tim MacKinnon. It’s a story about measuring developer performance with metrics:
We were working for a well-known software consultancy at a Big Bank that decided to introduce individual performance metrics, “for appraisal and personal development purposes”. This was cascaded through the organisation, and landed in our team in terms of story points delivered. This was after some considered discussion from the department manager, who knew you shouldn’t measure things like lines of code or bugs found, because people can easily game these.
Scared? Maybe you can guess. Tim was very bad at metrics.
Tim’s score was consistently zero. Zero! Not just low, or trending downwards, but literally zero. Week after week, iteration after iteration. Zero points for Tim.
Why? Maybe you can guess again. Tim wasn’t playing that game, he was a true senior developer in the sense that he nurtured his team.
… he would spend his day pairing with different teammates. With less experienced developers he would patiently let them drive whilst nudging them towards a solution. He would not crowd them or railroad them, but let them take the time to learn whilst carefully crafting moments of insight and learning
Tim wasn’t delivering software; Tim was delivering a team that was delivering software.
Every organization is different though. Mercifully in the situation above, Dan protected Tim. But we can all imagine a situation where Tim was fired because of this silly measurement system. (That always reminds me of Cathy O’Neils Weapons of Math Destruction). Getting to know how the organization works, so you can work within it, is another approach that Cindy Sridharan advocates for. See: How to become a more effective engineer.
You can either complain and pontificate on Twitter on how the tech industry *should* ideally work, or you can learn how your org *really* works and what’s rewarded, and optimize for that.
Different organizations will have different paths to these answers. I’ll pluck off a few bullet points:
* exactly what technical skill you need to invest effort into getting better at, which will actually be rewarded
* how to build lasting relationships with other people on your team or organization that ultimately dictate the success of a project
* how to effectively pitch projects or improvements to leadership and actually see these through to completion
* how to weigh the pros and cons of technical choices in the larger context of the organizational realities and needs
* how to discern what’s achievable, and in precisely what time frame
Figure out who matters, what they care about, and how to effectively get things done. And don’t wait!
To build credibility, you need to demonstrate some impact early on, instead of waiting months to get the lie of the land before you start getting anything done. Chasing small wins and low-hanging fruit can be an easy path to productivity. Don’t underestimate their importance.
Another one I like in this realm of being a truly effective developer is Artem Zakirullin’s Cognitive load is what matters. A good developer can write code that themselves and others can read without being so complex that, well, you run out of mental capacity.
When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things.
That tracks for me. I start tracing how code works, and I’m all good and have it in my head, then it feels like right at the fifth logical jump, my brain just dumps it all out and I’m lost. https://blog.codepen.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cognitiveloadv6paper-1024x756.png I suspect it’s a talent of really great[...]
@html_codee
programmers that they can hold a bit more in their head, but it’s not smart to assume that of your fellow developers. And remember that even the very smart appreciate things that are very simple and clear, perhaps especially.
You know what strikes me as a smart developer move? When they work together even across organizations. It’s impressive to me to see Standard Schema an effort by all the people who work on any library that deals with JavaScript/TypeScript schemas to make them easier to use and implement.
The goal is to make it easier for ecosystem tools to accept user-defined type validators, without needing to write custom logic or adapters for each supported library. And since Standard Schema is a specification, they can do so with no additional runtime dependencies. Integrate once, validate anywhere.
There are heaps of libraries and tools that already support it, so I’d call that a big success. I see Zod released Mini recently, which uses functions instead of methods, making it tree-shakable, but otherwise works exactly the same. Likely a nod to Validbot which was always the “Zod but smaller” choice.
Another thing I think is smart: seeing what developers are already doing and making that thing better. Like, I’m sure there are very fancy exotic ways to debug JavaScript in powerful ways. But we all know most of us just console.log() stuff. So I like how Microsoft is like, let’s just make that better with console.context(). This allows for better filtering and styling of messages and such, which would surely be welcome. Might as well steal formatting strings from Node as well.
@html_codee
You know what strikes me as a smart developer move? When they work together even across organizations. It’s impressive to me to see Standard Schema an effort by all the people who work on any library that deals with JavaScript/TypeScript schemas to make them easier to use and implement.
The goal is to make it easier for ecosystem tools to accept user-defined type validators, without needing to write custom logic or adapters for each supported library. And since Standard Schema is a specification, they can do so with no additional runtime dependencies. Integrate once, validate anywhere.
There are heaps of libraries and tools that already support it, so I’d call that a big success. I see Zod released Mini recently, which uses functions instead of methods, making it tree-shakable, but otherwise works exactly the same. Likely a nod to Validbot which was always the “Zod but smaller” choice.
Another thing I think is smart: seeing what developers are already doing and making that thing better. Like, I’m sure there are very fancy exotic ways to debug JavaScript in powerful ways. But we all know most of us just console.log() stuff. So I like how Microsoft is like, let’s just make that better with console.context(). This allows for better filtering and styling of messages and such, which would surely be welcome. Might as well steal formatting strings from Node as well.
@html_codee
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2️⃣ Always include the alt attribute in <img> tags for better accessibility and SEO.
3️⃣ Use <meta charset="UTF-8"> to avoid character encoding issues.
4️⃣ Keep your HTML structured with proper indentation — it helps with readability and maintenance.
5️⃣ Use comments <!-- like this --> to explain tricky parts of your code.
6️⃣ Avoid inline styles — keep CSS in separate files for better performance.
7️⃣ Use <label> with form inputs to improve usability and accessibility.
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Chris’ Corner: Type Stuff!
Let’s do typography stuff!
* Video: “A live demo by me of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus” by Mark Simonson
* Font: “Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.” Hyperlegible is the name of the font, designed for people with low vision.
* Technique: “Fluid typography means thinking in terms of type scales and flexible spacing across your defined design space.” Richard Rutter goes retrofitting a new type sizing technique into an old layout. Miriam is also thinking about all this. Richard also has a good one on avoiding faux bold, which has afflicted me many times. My hot take is that browsers shouldn’t do faux nuthin.
* Font: “To help young readers of all skill levels, we’re introducing Kermit, a child-friendly typeface created by the type design studio Underware.” It’s fairly pricey but I can imagine it being perfect for some projects. Like Comic Sans but cooler. P.S. you should really try Comic Code on CodePen, it’s awesome.
* Fonts: “UNCUT.wtf is a free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type.” A lot of them are super similar which makes me wonder if many of them come from students taking a design class or something.
* Journey: “One day, I saw what felt like Gorton on a ferry traversing the waters Bay Area. A few weeks later, I spotted it on a sign in a national park. Then on an intercom. On a street lighting access cover. In an elevator. At my dentist’s office. In an alley.” Marcin Wichary on Manhattan’s hardest working typeface.
* Performance: “… file sizes of web fonts? I personally don’t have a gut feeling how much is too much and how much is to be expected.” Stoyan Stefanov reckons 20k is fair.
* Behind the Scenes: “This meant that on web we could simply start our font stacks with
* Technique: “…we added
Chris’ Corner: Type Stuff!
Let’s do typography stuff!
* Video: “A live demo by me of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus” by Mark Simonson
* Font: “Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.” Hyperlegible is the name of the font, designed for people with low vision.
* Technique: “Fluid typography means thinking in terms of type scales and flexible spacing across your defined design space.” Richard Rutter goes retrofitting a new type sizing technique into an old layout. Miriam is also thinking about all this. Richard also has a good one on avoiding faux bold, which has afflicted me many times. My hot take is that browsers shouldn’t do faux nuthin.
* Font: “To help young readers of all skill levels, we’re introducing Kermit, a child-friendly typeface created by the type design studio Underware.” It’s fairly pricey but I can imagine it being perfect for some projects. Like Comic Sans but cooler. P.S. you should really try Comic Code on CodePen, it’s awesome.
* Fonts: “UNCUT.wtf is a free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type.” A lot of them are super similar which makes me wonder if many of them come from students taking a design class or something.
* Journey: “One day, I saw what felt like Gorton on a ferry traversing the waters Bay Area. A few weeks later, I spotted it on a sign in a national park. Then on an intercom. On a street lighting access cover. In an elevator. At my dentist’s office. In an alley.” Marcin Wichary on Manhattan’s hardest working typeface.
* Performance: “… file sizes of web fonts? I personally don’t have a gut feeling how much is too much and how much is to be expected.” Stoyan Stefanov reckons 20k is fair.
* Behind the Scenes: “This meant that on web we could simply start our font stacks with
Verdana, pick a couple of reasonable fallbacks, and get IKEA branding effectively for free.” IKEA didn’t end up using Verdana, but I wish they did, I kinda love it at small sizes. This is a great look at a major typographic choice at a major brand from Robin Whittleton.* Technique: “…we added
text-wrap: balance on WordPress.org, and quickly got community feedback that it led to awkward, unexpected breaks in Japanese and Korean.” Kelly Choyce-Dwan whips out stuff like word-break: auto-phrase; for the win.