You don't create a culture
Amen to that. My wife told me a great story about a large company she used to work for. The company wanted engineers to feel ownership over their work which they hoped would improve quality. Their solution to this was to put up posters in all the offices saying: “You should feel ownership over your work” Jason, I agree that real culture takes time to be built. But saying that “it happens” is a bit
Everyone does everything
The natural tendency of growth is towards specialization. When you only have a few people, they must by necessity do everything. When you have more people, there’s enough room and slack to let people build specialization kingdoms that only they have the keys to. Don’t be so eager to let that happen. Specialization might give you a temporary boost in productivity, but it comes at the expense of ove
How key-based cache expiration works
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things — Phil Karlton Doing cache invalidation by hand is an incredibly frustrating and error-prone process. You’re very likely to forget a spot and let stale data get served. That’s enough to turn most people off russian-doll caching structures, like the one we’re using for Basecamp Next. Thankfully there’s a better
Automating with convention: Introducing sub
When I started my on-call shifts, we had pretty little in the way of automation for day-to-day issues. Tasks like SSH’ing into our cluster, starting a Rails console, or doing a deep search through our gigantic mail directories, were either shelved away in someone’s bashrc, history log, or just ingrained into someone’s memory. This pain was also felt by a few other of my fellow programmers, and we
No more remote work at Yahoo
Employees at Yahoo have had a rough decade. The company has been drifting aimlessly with little vision, an endless parade of CEOs, and a flatlined stock price. That’s not exactly a conducive environment to be inspired and motivated within, let alone do the stellar work that Yahoo needs to pull out of the rut. So it’s no wonder that they’ve been suffering from severe brain drain for a long time. Bu
Three charts are all I need
The last few years have seen an explosion in new ways of visualizing data. There are new classes, consultants, startups, and competitions. Some of these new and more “daring” visualizations are great. Some are not so great – many “infographics” are more like infauxgraphics. In everyday business intelligence (the “real world”), the focus isn’t on visualizing information, it’s on solving problems, a
The five programming books that meant most to me
There are so many programming books out there, but most focus on specific technologies and their half-life is incredibly short. Others focus on process or culture. Very few focus on the timeless principles of writing good code, period. The following five books had the biggest influence on my programming style and development: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns: Incredibly practical advice for what c
Three quick Rails console tips
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with Basecamp Next on Rails version 3.2.3. Dive into your app Running the app method in rails console gives you an integration se
Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding
Sharding is a database technique where you break up a big database into many smaller ones. Instead of having 1 million customers on a single, big iron machine, you perhaps have 100,000 customers on 10 different, smaller machines. The general advise on sharding is that you don’t until you have to. It’s similar to Martin Fowler’s First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don’t distribute your objects!
Signal v. Noise is closed. | SvN
Signal v. Noise is closed. It’s been a wonderful run, but we decided it was time to do something different. With the launch of HEY World, everyone at Basecamp who was writing for SvN now has their own blog. Of course, we’ll keep the lights on here until the end of the internet. Enjoy exploring a decade plus of SvN: Where you can follow us now: Jason Fried is on HEY World and Twitter. DHH is on HEY
Padded link targets for better mousing
Among the minor tweaks we introduced with the new Basecamp project switcher are some larger link targets at the top of the screen. Since then I’ve been paying extra attention to link target size. Here are a couple examples of generous link targets for inspiration. Threadless has featured large link targets on its main navigation for a long time. Here’s what the nav looks like: As a user, when you
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