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Meta Layoffs
Words from Mark Zuckerberg on management and remote work.
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The minimum viable unit of saleable software
LLMs made software cheaper to build, but not free. A look at the new buy-vs-build math of the LLM age, and the pricing zone where small software businesses can still survive.
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The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.
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Heroku: Core Impact
It’s been a rough month for Heroku. On April 15th, they opened a security notice that’s been active ever since – the status page, designed for incidents measured in hours rather than days or weeks, dutifully reads off a duration of “478 hours, 9 minutes” 1 .
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My Heroku values (2015)
Some of my favorite practices and ideas from almost four years at Heroku.
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Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?
On looking for alternatives to Slack culture.
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Stripe V2
Stripe’s API got a new major version, and no one noticed.