Bevan Wentzel

He / him | Promotes harmonious human-machine relations | South African 🇿🇦 | ❤️: @katgauton | 📸: | 📧: [email protected]

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

@MTNza really don't know what they are doing

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

elon musks twitter has become so insane that ppl openly feel comfortable saying they will rape women

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

The reply guys having the best day of their lives

[daily pic of mac @malcompicsdaily]

i’ve had this saved for months

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

Spent way too much time on this dark / light mode toggle

[Mustafa Ali @mustafa01ali]

We've just finished migrating the @Shopify mobile app to @reactnative 🎉. This is our biggest app and was built over a decade. Here's how it went 🧵

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

Good luck America

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is what happens when you think real life is like reddit and twitter

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

@ryanbrussow

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

👀

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@wil_da_beast630 nothing to do with suits or politics. i blocked you bc you stole part of forgiato blow's beard and now appear on fox news with it to taunt him

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

So the choice for president according to the internet is: a communist vs a fascist.

Political season is insane 🤣

[Michael Caine @themichaelcaine]

Calm down

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

My favorite thing about PageSpeed Insights is that it doesn't even pass its' own metrics

[Bevan Wentzel @bevan_mw]

@sebastienlorber Type: any

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong.

Yes there's a 3 week version of something. And a 6 week version. And a 4 month version. And a 12 month version. That's correct.

Yet, you'll almost always be wrong whichever you pick. Because estimates aren't walls — they're windows. Too easy to open and climb through to the next one.

The 3 week version will turn into the 6 week version will turn into the 12 week version. You can see right through.

Software that encourages you to estimate how long something will take makes it even worse. That software is part of there problem. You know which products I'm talking about.

So what to do instead?

Set an appetite.

A appetite is like a budget. Not "we think it'll take 4 weeks" but "we're only giving it 4 weeks." That's all we've got side aside for it. Then the team tasked with the work has to get creative and figure out the 4 week version of that feature. There is no 6, 8, 10, or 12 week version when the appetite is 4 weeks. Just like there's no $7,000 vacation when you only can afford a $2500 one. And you know how that ends up if you overspend.

Are there times when you need to give something another week? Maybe even two? Yes. There's some margin for that because it can only happen once per project, and it's commensurate with the time spent. You don't double the time, maybe you give it 10% more time if you need to. A little margin for error and reality is built in there. This isn't absolutist, this isn't fundamentalism.

And yes, there are times when things aren't completed within the time allotted, and there's no obvious, honest path to finishing it with a touch more time. In those cases the project dies, we internalize, and hope that doesn't happen again. It rarely does here at 37signals, but it has. It's part of the cost of doing things this way. The payoff is huge, the downside is limited — that's a tradeoff we can live with.

[Matt Perry @mattgperry]

🚀 Framer Motion 11.11 introduces object animations.

animate() can now accept and animate *any* object. Be it Three.js Object3Ds, Pixi.js Graphics... anything.

You can even mix different object types and HTML/SVG elements within animation sequences.

[brian lowery @bdlowery]

This is why having AI write code for you sucks. Literally just have the training wheels on forever. Great point by @dhh

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Here's a fun trick you can do with template literals in TS!