Chris Hart @chrishartdev

Since we started offering employee profit sharing in 2020, we've paid out over $24,000,000 to employees. We've never offered stock options. Not a fan of future maybe money. We pay real cash to real people so they can spend it on real things right now. When you choose to be our customer, you're making this possible. You're supporting an independent, fully customer-funded business that shares its success with the people who make it happen. You don't need investors, stock options, or complicated cap tables to share your success. You can just share the profits. It really can be that simple. If you're curious, this is how the profit sharing plan works: basecamp.com/handbook/benef…

@GergelyOrosz TP phone home

In the era of AI, our network is what makes us valuable, and the work more enjoyable. (The work is mysterious and important). Go to more conferences.

“Too many meetings” is the symptom, not the disease.

Good software is good. Great software is fun.

OMG I do not have time to re-evaluate models every week. I'm sorry but if you just released a model last week you are still on cool-down. I will be ready to try your next model in, let's say, two months. I'm sorry if your competitor outclassed you this round, deal with it.

This (recycled) HN story about Neovim deleting/losing undofile data, is false. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498670… Vim undofile "data loss" happens because Vim (VIM!) will reset the undofile if an external tool (git, nano) changes the file while Vim is not running. (:help undo-persistence) Nvim does not (never did) touch Vim's undofiles. Even if you force N/Vim to use the same state directory, there is no corruption risk because the format has a version code.

AI is a big W for 40-somethings. Old enough to have learned how to do things the right way, young enough to learn some new tricks.

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." — Eric Hoffer, 1973

Steve Krug told us: don't make me think. Jacob Wright of Dabble Writer says go one step further. Make me feel. He has the retention numbers, and the customers with the logo tattooed on them, to back it up. #MicroConf

@yomnashousha Works great, thank you for this

It's incredible how far you can go if you just don't stop.

in the next version of OpenCode we added /btw which is a long awaited feature it lets you ask a quick question without interrupting the current session - i use it to get status updates on long running work

I survived the great 0.25 bps interest rate hike of 2026

The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage. I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care. But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently. For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios. But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.

The most dangerous phrase in software isn't 'quick fix', it's 'while I'm in here'. That's where the real damage happens.

make it work make it good make it delightful do not skip steps. demo every day. repeat.

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency. In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them. They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it. I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen. I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same. I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that. Number one tip: act with agency.

So much of the industry is afraid of nuance when it comes to AI now and it’s so annoying. many people will get pissed if your opinion isn’t either “ai is a machine that is only slop and can’t be useful” or “you need to just let the agent have full control of the code”

Don't force yourself to become an 'expert' in a marketing channel you hate. You’ll fail anyway, and hate life in the process. Is that why you started a company? longform.asmartbear.com/first-marketin…