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@polluterofminds
Justin Hunter
Dallas, Texas
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joined 2 years ago
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Writer, maker. Founded Graphite Docs and SimpleID. Now building Perligo - https://perligo.io https://polluterofminds.com
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January 19, 2021
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Write Ugly Code
I wrote about this a while back on Dev, but with the rise of no-code solutions and the continued sense of gatekeeping I see with some developers, I thought it w…
January 12, 2021
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Finding the shipping point
I tend not to have a problem shipping products, but I know some developers and some founders get caught in this cycle of constantly building and iterating witho…
January 6, 2021
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Don't Write Tests For Your MVP
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I wanted to share it based on my experience. First, a little background. I learned to code by building my f…
January 1, 2021
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Ship pretty, functional things
When Reid Hoffman said that if you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your app, you shipped too late, I think he was referring to features and bugs. Not…
November 20, 2020
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Day Five Without Twitter
Well, I forgot to post about my Twitter removal experiment yesterday. So that’s a great sign. It means I wasn’t thinking about it enough to post. This might be …
November 19, 2020
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Day Five Without Twitter
It's odd how big a marketing channel Twitter has been to me without realizing it. I dumped traditional analytics software a while ago because of the privacy imp…
November 18, 2020
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Day Four Without Twitter
Today was the first day where I could truly recognize the mental difference cutting Twitter out of my life has made. My wife was looking at her feed and reading…
November 16, 2020
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Day Three Without Twitter
My hope is that I will forget to make these posts because I am not thinking about Twitter at all anymore. However, the biggest struggle I'm having without Twitt…
November 16, 2020
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Day Two Without Twitter
Yesterday I talked about my first day of having the Twitter app deleted from my phone. I mentioned I would likely build an app to let me send tweets without hav…
November 15, 2020
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Day One Without Twitter
I 100% don’t expect to be able to keep this up, but I deleted Twitter from my phone today. It has caused far more negativity than positivity over the last year …
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Products
Graphite
Decentralized and encrypted alternative to Google's G-Suite
Lifevest
Live chat support and sales with privacy top of mind.
Perligo
A writing critique group platform you’ll actually love
SimpleID
Developer tools that make it easy to add auth and storage.