One of the good things about Backbone.js is it doesn’t tell us how to do things. It leaves it for us to decide what are the best practices for writing views (or any components). This is also one of the worst things about Backbone. it makes it almost too easy to take the wrong path, and write views that will be hard to maintain. The principle we…

I ran into an old post by Philipp Lenssen on how good programmers are lazy and dumb. I totally agree with the title and most of the content. However, I believe that the lazy and dumb engineers are the better ones for a different reason: Lazy: Because code is liability, and by writing a lot of code, you are taking upon yourself (or your team…