152 / Local, first, forever

Hey hey, how was your week?

Toot of the Week

Hypothesis: once a company reaches a certain size, to a first approximation, all of its technical problems are actually socio-technical ones. — @norootcause@hachyderm.io

Culture

• Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest (jorgegalindo.me)

  Jorge Galindo about tactics to improve meeting culture. Thanks, Jan!

• How to evolve a product (granola.so)

  Jim Fisher argues we should build products using concepts from evolution.

• The Heirloom Tomato Org Chart (Video) (youtube.com)

  Nan Yu about Convay’s Law and how to structure your org chart. Thanks, Jan!

Software

• llama.ttf (fuglede.github.io)

  Søren Fuglede Jørgensen shares an unconventional project: Llama LLM in a font.

• Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org)

  Brandon Rhodes shares a cool tip for naming your own scripts: prepend a comma.

• Local, first, forever (tonsky.me)

  Nikita Prokopov explores how a local-first platform-agnostic file provider could work. Thanks, Jan!

• The plan-execute pattern (mmapped.blog)

  Roman Kashitsyn about the benefits of the plan-execute pattern in complex software.

Cutting Room Floor

• Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World (mcsweeneys.net)

  Jonathan Zeller about the urban myth that your phone is listening to your conversations.

• The true losers of this presidential debate were the American people (theguardian.com)

  Rebecca Solnit about the shortcomings of this week’s presidential debate.