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Help me settle a debate: Is the Nightmare Before Christmas a 🎃 Halloween movie, or a 🎄 Christmas movie?

Words I Wrote ✍️

Last week, I wrote 5 Articles That Influenced My Career. In it, I look back at several articles written by generous web strangers that changed my approach to building on the web.

I feel fortunate to work in an industry where learning and insights are so readily shared! We get to stand on each other's shoulders as we build this wild, wonderful (and weird) web. It's this type of sharing and care that made the web so amazing, and I hope to give back in small ways, just as those before me did!

Read my trip down article memory lane.

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• All heroes have origin stories, here's Python's (...although it is 1.5 hours long, so... settle in!)
• Dave talks about his dislike of the MVP car analogy.
• If we think users only care about 20% of an app, I wonder what percentage of a website do they care about?

Other Stuff

• I haven't thought much about eels, but I guess they're kinda weird!...
• Adrift is a site where people can release anonymous doubts and cares. The cares are warming, but the doubts are absolutely heart-wrenching. It reminds me how much pain people carry.
• A monospace font made of swiss cheese. 🧀
• Benjamin Button reviews Mac OS releases. (I was a little slow on the uptake on this one 😅)

Watch and Play (✨ new section! ✨)

• 📺 Spoopy season is here and Louie Zong is ready for it. 🎤👻
• 📺 A story about Louis and his blue shoes.
• 📺 An answer to your burning question: Why do windmills usually have 3 blades?
• 🎮 Simply amazing what can be done in the browser! Check out Messenger, a small game about delivering messages.