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Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
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Power dynamics in web specifications

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My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
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The Spectrum of Openness

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"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs

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One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
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Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
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Indexing into a string

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I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
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Reflecting on 18 years at Google I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last...
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Reflecting on 18 years at Google

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I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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How big is the Flutter team? I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because...
a year ago
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How big is the Flutter team?

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I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
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Ask for forgiveness, not permission A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go...
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Ask for forgiveness, not permission

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A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go ahead and implement it. The design doc was one I had previously reviewed and commented on, and had indicated that it seemed like a good idea, but I hadn't filled in the box saying...
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The Future is Flutter Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and...
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The Future is Flutter

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Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and open standards is that the product and the employer are orthogonal. I've had three employers in my career, and in all three cases when I left my employer I continued my job. With...
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Assertions We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework. There's several reasons for...
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Assertions

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We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework. There's several reasons for this. The original reason was that when I wrote a bunch of this code, I had nowhere for it to run. I literally wrote the first few thousand(?) lines of framework code before we...
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG

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Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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Deciding which bugs to fix

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Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
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Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
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Meeting philosophy

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Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
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When complaints are a good sign When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
4 months ago
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When complaints are a good sign

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When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices. These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
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