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Linear’s founders want to do more than support better software creation. They want to bring back a sense of dignity to software creation, a job that today, Saarinen observes, can feel disconnected from a larger purpose. They want software engineers to feel satisfaction with and control over their work, something overreliance on project managers ha

Karri Saarinen • Designing for the Developers

If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.

stealing • Retrofuturism

iFixit is a wiki-based site that

Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

hottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology makes it faster to build, but harder to care.» And how real quality can only be achieved by truly valuing craft, for its own sake. «This is what craft is about — the deliberate attention put into making... See more

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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

Ivan Vendrov nothinghuman.substack.com

Computer scientist and technology blogger John Gruber on quality:

"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."

“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