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Developers Are on Edge
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the...
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Be Less Precious
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying...
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Could Apple Leave Europe?
Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case,...
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37Signals – DHH – Committing to Windows
I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from...
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Apple is in its Ballmer era
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the...
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You can own more than one type of computer
I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
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Finding the Last Editor
Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on...
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Switching to Android Was Easy
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number...
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The Compounding Seeds of Creativity
Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be...
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Campfire Is Once #1
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for...
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Basecamp Turns 20
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was...
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Dare to Connect a Server to the Internet
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
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Campfire is now for sale (Slack alternative from 37signals)
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for...
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DHH – The benefit of seniority ought to be bandwidth
Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic...
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We Need a Right to Compute
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a...
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Apple's new extortion regime to keep big app makers
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was...
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Microsoft Taught Apple Nothing
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized...
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Multi-tenancy is what's hard about scaling web services
Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that...
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Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024
The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing...
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The tech layoffs continue – DHH
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of...
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Apple Approves the Hey Calendar
I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something”...