№7 — Between the Calendar and the Code

Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Paul Graham argues that programmers and managers operate on fundamentally incompatible schedules, so a single meeting can derail an entire day of a maker’s work.

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Some mistakes I made as a new manager

Ben Kuhn argues that his worst mistakes as a new manager were quiet and cumulative rather than dramatic—managing the wrong amount, avoiding hard questions, deferring maintenance, and hesitating instead of just asking for what he needed.

the trough of zero dopamine

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Things You Should Never Do, Part I

Joel Spolsky argues that rewriting a working codebase from scratch, as Netscape did, is the single worst strategic mistake a software company can make.

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Great Animations

Emil Kowalski argues that great animations come from disciplined craft—matching easing, duration, and physicality to the interaction—rather than from default transitions or flashy effects.

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Lunar - The defacto app for controlling monitor brightness

Alin Panaitiu’s Lunar automates monitor brightness via ambient light sensors, alongside volume, input switching, and display power control, replacing fiddly hardware buttons.

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Being Glue — No Idea Blog

Tanya Reilly argues that the uncredited coordination and process work that keeps teams running—“glue work”—is essential but systematically undervalued, and that senior engineers should choose to do it deliberately rather than let it consume them by default.

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