Programming

Conceptual compression means beginners don’t need to know SQL — hallelujah!

Getting Real: A new YouTube channel from Basecamp

Programming with a love of the implicit

It’s always better to be explicit! That’s pretty much a programming truism. Rarely…

Horses for courses

It’s no more sensible to talk about a single category of programmers than it is a single category of writers. Yes, an…

Writing software is hard

Good software is uncommon because writing it is hard. In the abstract, we all know that it is hard. We talk incessantly about how it’s hard. And yet, we also collectively seem shocked — just shocked! — when the expectable happens and the software we’re exposed to or is working on…

We’re looking for a support programmer

Come join us as we build a safer, faster, better Basecamp.

We’re looking for a support programmer to work with us as we build a safer, faster, better Basecamp. As well as working on Basecamp and our…

Program to where the performance puck is going to be, not where it has been

In the year of our lord, 2013, the thought of ARM-powered phones running the full web experience with JavaScript as fast as x86-powered desktops was a laughable pipe dream. Way back in those olden…