Principles
I will not make boring software.
"I will not make any more boring software. I will not make any more boring software." Via !Boring & Andy Allen
Stop drawing dead fish.
Via Bret Victor
Go Bespoke
"If your goal is to reach as many as possible… go cross-platform.
But if your goal is to make the best software possible… focus on one. Anything else is compromised." — Andy Allen
Messaging-Based Object-Oriented Systems
The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol. Publish and subscribe. Wish and claim.
Climb the ladder of abstraction
Bret Victor
Everything is live
Gracefully adjusts to any screen while maintaining its calm aesthetic
A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ Points
Via Alan Kay. The right metaphor can change everything
"Learn everything, and then forget it except for the perfume" - Alan Kay
"This will allow you to think your own thoughts, and when you come up with an interesting idea, it will first be somewhat influenced by good ideas in the past, and it will also have perfume that will help you find what was done on this idea in the past."
Do systems designs without programming them.
"For example, try to take your music game and redo it without code to see what it should look like at run time and then how it might have been programmed. I do this all the time. Sometimes a good idea will appear."