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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image(bitbytebit.substack.com)

1079 points by recroad 1 year ago | 614 comments

A Substack post criticizing Google Search, showing that searching for Midjourney surfaces paid competitor ads above the actual product, which appears fifth.

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers(bitbytebit.substack.com)

333 points by recroad 2 years ago | 151 comments

A Substack post by Zarar Siddiqi sharing lessons from a year of startup life, arguing that backlog size shrinks the more often a team talks to customers.

When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler(bitbytebit.substack.com)

159 points by recroad 3 years ago | 93 comments