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• Django: It's like a superpower for solo developers. The longer you work in the industry, the more you appreciate the conventions it uses. A monolithic framework can get you really, really far. To me, it's about predictable software that's fast in every way that matters. By the way, I talk more about this topic on my other blog post Choose Boring Te

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.@jessepollak on why social applications will be key to @base's success: https://t.co/53o9eqYfbs

I’ve talked a bunch about how I think that we should design our computing platforms around people rather than apps and I guess that’s sort of what I’m talking about. On phones today, the foundational element is an app, right? That’s the organizing principle for kind of your phone and how you navigate it. But I would hope that in the future, the org... See more

Developers in particular are also the bleeding edge of any company — people with a natural proclivity toward working as efficiently as possible, with little patience for subpar performance.

The full stack creator is someone who first builds an audience, then serves that audience with services, education and products.  Versus traditional businesses build a product, then try acquire an audience through marketing.

So long as information processing power continues to increase, returns to authentic public communication will continue to rise as returns to prestige affiliations continue to decrease. Yet the firms that are capitalizing on the facilitation of defection—Substack, Patreon, etc.—sell a basket of features, not least of which is a kind of ersatz presti... See more

“The fundamental thing that Linear did differently was this idea of being highly opinionated,” she says. “They understood that, the truth is, most companies have no idea what the right software development process is,” Zhan says. “The subset who do would much prefer focusing on building their product than dedicating time to shaping this process—cu

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