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Chris Kottom @chriskottom
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Ryan Castillo
@rmcastil
16 Oct 2025
Do I know any founders who write their own content and would participate in a UX interview for Knowatoa's new onboarding for $$?
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git blame - for those times when you've figured out "what the fuck?" and you're ready to move on to "who the fuck?"
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Don't you wish that buying that clever domain name actually counted for as much progress as it feels like it does?
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Love this GIF at the bottom of the changed files view in the new @github PR interface.
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I can completely understand the idea of building a quick MVP to validate the market. But it's worth asking yourself: what happens if this works? I've never seen a company start to get traction and then put everything on pause to rewrite the app. There's no time.
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Build your MVP with the expectation that it's actually a v1 that will need to be extended and maintained for years to come. If you're wrong, you'll cost yourself a little time, but if you're right, you'll have saved yourself potentially years of carrying costs on crappy code.
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Most of the time when we think of technical debt, it's in the context of making a trade-off between "Doing It Right" and "Getting Shit Done". That's certainly one form, but there's another type that's more insidious. Read on...
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With The Time Bomb, though, you probably didn't think about any of that, so when it does show up, it comes as a complete surprise. And unless you've got good monitoring and instrumentation, tracking down the root cause becomes a nightmare.
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The takeaways here? Document your assumptions. Build in some form of monitoring early - at least in production. And remember - technical debt isn't always about cutting corners. Sometimes it's about the system environment not turning out to be what you thought it would.
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Kai Lentit (e/xcel)
@KaiLentit
18 Jun 2025
0.1x engineer [FULL]
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Jon Yongfook
@yongfook
10 Jun 2025
Your weekly reminder to ship your MVP.
Jon Yongfook
@yongfook
14 Sep 2021
This grew into a $12 billion business. Ship your MVP.
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My 17-year-old this morning: "Let's say we agree to disagree." Me: "No, I agree THAT we disagree, but I'm right and you're wrong. There's a difference."
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Every project of any size is an exercise in faith. You have to begin before you can clearly see the end.
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People are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of bad UI and UX if you're solving a painful or expensive problem for them. This doesn't give a free pass to developers who can't be bothered about the application front-end. Just understand that it might not be the main thing.
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