Filipe Fortes

@fortes

Working on something new

Palo Alto
Joined January 2007

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  1. Choose a career where you're always learning, like Software Engineering, where you keep learning new ways to make things that don't work.

  2. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is likely the best cartoon about programming, teaching the dangers of a unbounded loops:

  3. First Instant Articles HTML, now AMP -- here's hoping publishers start upgrading their markup!

  4. Retweeted

    A text version of the Big Data talk I gave yesterday where I challenge people to take off their radium underpants :

  5. Retweeted

    A talk I gave last week on advertising, silly con valley, and six ways we could fix the Internet to restore privacy

  6. Having tried (and failed) to get pubs to create semantic markup, I hope Facebook does it with Instant Articles:

  7. My tweet has over 150k impressions, adding 16 new followers. 0.01% conversion rate seems like a poor ad investment.

  8. It's been years, but I still think about you all the time and it makes me heartsick. No one understands me like you did, Google Reader.

  9. And as everyone knows, Palo Alto is spanish for "High Valuation"

  10. Little known fact: San Francisco was named after St. Francis, the patron saint of wearing a light sweater all summer long.

  11. Write code. Mostly tests. Not too much.

  12. How many times can a mind be blown before it wears out?

  13. <<<<<<< Today: Push new feature! ======= Today: Deal with merge conflicts :/ >>>>>>>

    • @visigoth

      hardware + software = magic

    • @CSareen

      Microsoft Principal Program Manager Lead on Windows. CEO and Co-founder of Chewsy (). Fan of food and films. Loves to laugh.

  14. If your flexbox layouts broke in Chrome this week, you probably need to replace `flex: 1 1 auto` with `flex: 1 1 0`

  15. Retweeted

    I’ve finally put up the text version of a talk of mine from last fall, “Web Design: The First 100 Years”

  16. Among natural disasters, tsunamis may be the closest to being completely unsurvivable

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    I often hear claims that “the DOM is slow!” and “React is fast!”, so I decided to put that to the test: vs

  18. Video game physics engines at their amusing worst: (example: )

  19. The value of a photograph increases with age. Except selfies. Fuck selfies.

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