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Delivering features faster

Get the most velocity from your product team as it transitions from prototyping and validation to growth.
Kane Baccigalupi
May 15, 2019
Write good commit messages by blaming others

To write good commit messages, you must read commit messages. And to read commit messages, you must use git blame effectively.
German Velasco
September 3, 2018
- Git
- Vim
- DevTools
- Tools
- Productivity
The Many Uses of Org Mode

Emacs’ Org mode is a great tool for productivity, be it business or pleasure.
Sid Raval
May 9, 2018
- Emacs
- DevTools
- Tools
- Productivity
Making Decisions and Keeping a Product Team Firing on all Cylinders

To ship early and often, a high-functioning product team should steer clear of these common decision-making pitfalls.
Mike Wenger
April 19, 2018
- Teams
- Process
- Productivity
- Analytics
- Playbook
Tell Me When It Closes: Bookmarklet

Tired of copying and pasting GitHub URLs for Tell Me When It Closes? We’ve got you covered.
Matt Sumner
May 9, 2017
- News
- Git
- Tools
- Productivity
Are You For Real?

Identify and manage your Imposter Syndrome.
Melissa Xie
March 16, 2017
- Happiness
- Productivity
Introducing Pipe it Down

Sometimes pull requests are full of noise and it’s difficult to cut through to what matters. Pipe it Down is a Chrome extension to help with that.
Chris Thorn
March 8, 2017
Investment Time

Since 2010, we have dedicated Friday every week to “investment time”, unstructured self-directed time undedicated to client work. Here’s how it works and what we’ve learned.
Ian Zabel and Dan Croak
February 10, 2017
- Business
- Community
- Happiness
- Hiring
- Open Source
- Productivity
Shell Script Suggestions for Speedy Setups

Is your team setup for success? Do they have the tools to deliver working software? Step zero is being able to get setup quickly.
Matt Sumner
January 12, 2017
Align GitHub-Flavored Markdown Tables in Vim

GitHub lets you create pretty tables in Markdown. Keeping those tables pretty in the source code doesn’t have to be painful.
Dan Croak
June 15, 2016
- Vim
- Productivity
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