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Before paul graham’s essay was Joel Spolsky’s blog (cofounder of Stack Overflow and Trello). This blog post was so iconic when I was at Red Hat that we used it as a guide when designing the fit-out of the Brisbane office that expanded over additional floors over the years. Private pods and offices rather than open plan. It was bliss. Tech Threads

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Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision! (a thread) My physical space is full of subtle cues. Books I read or bought most recently are lying out. Papers are lying in stacks on my desk, roughly arranged by their relationships. https://t.co/ee7lo0mdLv

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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

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21: Geoffrey Litt: Software You Can Shape · Dialectic

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The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.

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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can

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