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With developers spending less than a third of their time actually writing code, developer experience includes all the other stuff: maintaining code, testing, security issues, addressing incidents, and more.
The Case for 'Developer Experience' - Future
future.a16z.com
The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualities of the object and the abilities of the agent that is interacting.
This relational definition of affordance gives considerable difficulty to many people. We are used to thinking that properties are associated with objects. But affordance is not a property. An affordance is a relationship. Whether an affordance exists depends upon the properties of both the object and the agent.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually [reduces the effectiveness of collective action](https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10095997?ref=404media.co). The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
404 Media
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