Lessons Learned: Minimum Viable Product: a guide
Link: Lessons Learned: Minimum Viable Product: a guide: "One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because it's actually quite hard to do. It certainly took me many years to make sense of it."
Lessons Learned: What is customer development?
Link: Lessons Learned: What is customer development?: "When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when it's time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable. We're easily convinced by the argument that all we need to do is "build it and they will come." And when they don't come, well, we just try, try, again."
Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design
Link: Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design: "Users know how your product works and how to use it even before you design it. At least, they should. Users form expectations around how things should work through familiar patterns and repeated use. To design for maximum usability, designers need to understand and leverage users’ mental models. #ux #uxdesign"
Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.
Link: Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.: "There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of calling the service."
Linux Applications Performance: Introduction - Unixism
Link: Linux Applications Performance: Introduction - Unixism: "A comprehensive look at how web (http) servers work"
Linux Commands for Developers - DEV
Link: Linux Commands for Developers - DEV: "Another one of these lists of commands."