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Six o’ clock in the morning, you’re the last to hear the warning

Six o’ clock in the morning, you’re the last to hear the warning

I woke up on a typically cold and dreary February morning in Chicago before the sun rose. I leaned over to check my phone on my nightstand…
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The Big Migration

The Big Migration

In the problem space of software development, few things I can think of are as daunting a task as migrating a living, breathing…
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The glam of maintaining

The glam of maintaining

The aspirations of many startup businesses typically follow an idealistic path through business strategy/disruption, exponential growth…
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How an early feature was born

While we were in the throes of developing the first version of DoneDone, sometimes features would arise through nothing more than a quick Basecamp note. No meetings. No weighing of priorities on a Kanban board. Just a simple thought.

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Project BugSpray

The original name of DoneDone was BugSpray. I thought it was a clever name.

Can’t you see the fantastic analogies between a can of bug spray and a bug tracker that helped you kill a slew of bugs? Can’t you envision a marketing plan where we design a parodied version of a…

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The ridiculous thing we do every day

Most software products these days lean heavily on the efficiency and speed of everything. Not just development or deployments, but customer support, marketing, and all other non-programmatic things. It’s almost tautologous — if you work in software every process…

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