DevOps (4)

Chip Johnson

Should This Spec Even Exist?

Product Strategy in the Age of Reasoning Machines In Clarity Is the New Bottleneck, I built a 3D physics simulation with no experience in the underlying tech and discovered the hard part wasn't getting to working code. The hard part was defining what "working" meant.

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Chip Johnson

When the Lights Go Out

Say what you will about Twitter and its impact on our culture, but you can't deny that the people building it acted with passion and care. Since the end of October, when the company was bought out and taken private, those creators have watched helplessly…

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Chip Johnson

An Obvious Thing About the Cloud

(This post started life as a Twitter thread.) DHH has been getting lots of recent traction with a blog post about how his company, 37signals, is abandoning the cloud. Because he's DHH, this becomes a long rant about self-reliance and cutting out predatory middlemen. He…

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