Lowering the Barrier
Making programming (everything) more accessible
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Jun 2021
Project Management For People Who Just Want To Build
It’s funny to realize, as I’m pacing around the room thinking of how to open this post, that I’ve been working for sixteen years and not …
08
Jun 2021
Gatekeepers
At Replit we say we’re out to demolish gatekeepers. Learning to code helps people plug in to the fast-growing parts of the economy and we’ve …
04
May 2021
Everything Always Feels Broken
Reading about, but not partaking in, the dotcom boom of the nineties, the defining characteristic of startups seemed to be the hours worked. …
26
Apr 2021
Trust the Process
At various retrospectives and postmortems the past few weeks, there’s been a clear pattern. When a project has gone well, it turns out we’ve …
02
Apr 2021
Heller
I passed 100 prayer flags strung on a wire over the creek with the morning sun shining through them and thought how adventurers, the truest …
01
Apr 2021
The Stream
I’ve begun to think of email, Twitter, news articles, Slack, voice messages, and any other interruption as the Stream. That’s not an …
22
Mar 2021
Spring
It was glorious out this weekend. I spent as much of it as I could outdoors, including bringing the kids to see their great-grandparents. I …
18
Mar 2021
Emotional Incentives Matter
A sign that you’ve reached capital-A adulthood is actively looking for ways to improve yourself and those around you. Or it’s a sign that …
11
Mar 2021
How We Spend Our Time
Some school systems and IT providers have blocked Replit because it’s distracting. That feels short-sighted to me. Most of the internet …
09
Mar 2021
This Culture
“What is your engineering culture like?” The short answer: think radically, ship incrementally. What does that mean day-to-day? It’s hard to …
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