{"id":12257,"date":"2015-09-12T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12257"},"modified":"2015-09-12T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:54:37","slug":"your-app-is-collection-of-tiny-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/12\/your-app-is-collection-of-tiny-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Your App Is Collection of Tiny Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/this-is-all-your-app-is-a-collection-of-tiny-details\/\">Jeff Atwood<\/a> (quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/08\/c4_1_in_a_nut\">Wil Shipley<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/642566087205384192\">Ole Begemann<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/this-is-all-your-app-is-a-collection-of-tiny-details\/\"><p>These are, to be sure, a bunch of dumb, nitpicky details. Did the old version feed our cats reliably? Yes, it did. But it was also a pain to clean and maintain, a sort of pain that I endured weekly, for reasons that made no sense to me other than arbitrarily poor design choices. But when I bought the new version of the automated feeder, I was shocked to discover that nearly every single problem I had with the previous generation was addressed. I felt as if the Petmate Corporation&trade; was actually listening to all the feedback from the people who used their product, and actively refined the product to address <em>our<\/em> complaints and suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers <em>tolerate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood (quoting Wil Shipley, via Ole Begemann): These are, to be sure, a bunch of dumb, nitpicky details. Did the old version feed our cats reliably? Yes, it did. But it was also a pain to clean and maintain, a sort of pain that I endured weekly, for reasons that made no sense to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,30],"class_list":["post-12257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12258,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257\/revisions\/12258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}