My old colleague Jared released his new app ‘sodes today. It’s a podcast player for the casual podcast listener. Now, to be frank, this is not the podcast app for me. I still like Castro a lot and it suits my listening habits much better. But I can’t help but adore the design. It’s apparent that Jared has put a lot of care into the layout and interactions. I kind of wish it was aimed at the more serious listener.

Stumbled upon this post by Scott Mountenay today. It’s a great post (except for assuming all developers to be a “he”) that successfully highlights the biggest problem I, personally, encounter as a developer: When the written expression diverges too far from the mental model, it becomes increasingly difficult for the programmer to reason about the code and map it to their own mental model, at which point working with the code becomes very difficult.