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A home for Jihad Esmail.

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Many teams start with the MVP. But what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big? Could great products start at the finish line?

how i scraped together one of the largest collections of book recommendations on the internet

The best strategies including cycling, swim lanes, the boy scout rule, backlogs, and more.

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go

Analyse des éléments à prendre en compte pour générer un flux et le partager au plus grand nombre

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building "10x engineering teams" . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and published a different, shorter piece on March…

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

miguelgrinberg.com

Elastic scope, minimal cognitive overhead, clear objective, existing resources, and tangible artifact.

Strategies and tactics for staying productive.

Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.

From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

This handbook represents the best of our collective knowledge on management and serves as the foundation of our internal training program here at Clearbit.

I might write stuff here sometimes. Contribute to madprops/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

An essay about bad AI app design

In response to my article yesterday about how open source is kind of broken, one of my readers introduced me to the idea of fair-code. Fair-code is not a software license. It describes a software model where software: is generally free to use and can be distributed by anybody has its source code openly available can be extended by anybody in public and private communities is commercially restricted by its authors Fair-Code is more-or-less open source, except the author of the code has sole control over commercialization.