I have often read about Conway's Law. But never really understood it at practical level. This post by Jacob explains it well. It also provides a good framework on how to structure teams.

The guiding principle here is that Conway’s Law is inescapable – you ship your org chart. And, wherever possible, you should optimize for delivery. In other words: design your organization to match what you want to ship.

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Generally, product-aligned teams deliver better products more rapidly. Again, Conway’s Law is inescapable; if delivering a new feature requires several teams to coordinate, you’ll struggle compared …

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Wow, this is an interesting idea. I would do this if I had to start from grounds-up again.

This is great way to actually launch the ideas we have. It also increases our chances to find a thing that ticks.

Good snippet to control what formatting is retained in a rich text editor on pasting data.

We have been wanting to create a rich-text editor where we can control the tags and attributes that are permitted.

Tags added in a rich text editor (through contenteditable) in multiple ways:
- On pasting some rich text
- Keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl b, ctrl i
- Our own commands executed through document.execCommand

We can use a similar technique of tag replacement by tying the clean-up to oninput event.

This is a pretty exciting list of board games. It has one of my favorite games, Decrypto.

Will go through rest of them too.

Update

I liked Magic Maze from this list. This is also available in print-and-play.

Nice little trick to create "layers" in CSS.

.original-element { position: relative; } .covering-element { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; }

I have been using layers a lot lately. Mostly for small animations during festival season.