Microsoft rescued GitHub—and it's back the tools developers always wanted, along with a healthier open source community.

Ariely's new book, Predictably Irrational examines real-life decision making in an effort to determine why we waste money, underestimate risks, and procrastinate.

Playdate, the upcoming indie handheld gaming console from venerable software publisher Panic, is really important. But if you don't know the history of where the little company behind this little…

Keynote on the topic of open source, markets, debts, purpose, and no less than the meaning of life. Delivered at RailsConf 2019. Also available as a long read below.

We pay at the top 10% of San Francisco market rates for salary + bonus (but not stock options) at Basecamp. Those rates apply to everyone here, regardless of the role or where they actually live. W…

Job opening: Director of Operations at Basecamp.

Chocolate bars, cashmere nightgowns, and a tireless work ethic help.

The Nest ecosystem is dead. Nest accounts are dead. Nest's privacy firewall is dead.

MacBooks Users, Please take urgent action. If you own a MacBook equipped with a Butterfly keyboard, fill out this survey right away!https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KSP_eval Law firm Girard Sharp is…

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A citizen-led initiative appearing on ballots Tuesday follows a path that led to marijuana’s legalization in Denver and later in Colorado.

[Content Warning: parts of this post could be triggering for those who have experienced gaslighting or other forms of abuse] Kenneth Reitz is a famous Python developer, best-known for founding the…

According to four company insiders, uBiome was routinely billing patients multiple times without their consent as part of an aggressive growth plan that focused on increasing the number of billable…

“You’ve got a friend in me” plays in the background

Rework is a podcast by the makers of Basecamp about a better way to work and run your business. While the prevailing narrative around successful entrepreneurship tells you to scale fast and raise…

Last year, with much fanfare, the tech giant unveiled a screen-time tracker of its own. Then it quietly began purging competitors from its store.

Link to: https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad

A trivial fine would mean the government isn’t just deferential to Facebook, but that it doesn’t truly understand its power.

Documents show how the company tracks and terminates workers

Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.

If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations which can then steal that data for their own nefarious purposes, according to Facebook CEO…

For a decade, Google has tried to speed up updates to Android phones. For a decade, they’ve failed. Even worse, updates are getting slower every year.