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What does Jon think of Tailwind CSS?
What's new with the Transistor team?
  • Justin has a Halloween candy hangover.
  • Desktops vs laptops for dev work.
  • Transitioning from your personal equipment and software to stuff the business pays for.
  • Where are we in our Shape-Up cycles?
  • Our new marketing website is suffering because it's "un-shaped work."
  • The benefits of working with a partner.
  • "I'm realizing how single-threaded human beings are."
  • What does Jon think of Tailwind CSS?
  • At what stage of a customer's business lifecycle should you get them as a customer?
  • How many customers did we get because Basecamp switched to us?
  • "Make software that will be worth using for ten years."
  • New features - how should we communicate those to customers?

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