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David Albrecht
David Albrecht

David Albrecht

Editor of interval and rude mechanicals
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David Albrecht
David Albrecht in interval
Aug 20, 2018 · 3 min read

Some things we’ve learned

We’ve been hard at work building the service over the last year; here are a few things we’ve learned.

Scheduling is a huge problem

It affects millions of people in every industry from massage therapy to…

David Albrecht
David Albrecht
May 9, 2018 · 2 min read

Commerce follows communication

“Technology moves so fast”, people say. I mean, sure, you can unlock the latest iPhone just by looking at it. But that’s missing the point.

Real change is glacial.

David Albrecht
David Albrecht in rude mechanicals
Mar 9, 2018 · 3 min read

99.9% correct

I’m a technology pessimist.

It’s always broken. There are always more bugs to fix. There will be outages. What they call “innovation”, I call, “a new way to fail”.

You’d be this way too, after a decade of MongoDB balancer problems, half-baked card…

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David Albrecht
David Albrecht in rude mechanicals
Feb 16, 2018 · 6 min read

The economics of developer pay

Spoiler alert: there is virtually no difference in the mechanics of work done between $100 an hour, $200 an hour, and $30k a week — all of the leveling up there is in sophistication on who you go after, what engagements you propose and deliver, and how you package things for…

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David Albrecht
David Albrecht in rude mechanicals
Feb 9, 2018 · 4 min read

The cup and saucer model of software development