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Co-founder @linear , previously senior staff engineer @Uber
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Good bye for now San Francisco, a truly strange city. A city of tech with shitty internet, a city of enormous wealth with 1% of its population homeless, an enormous transit center without buses, a skyscraper without occupants.
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When we started working on our mobile apps, we had the obligatory discussion on what to build it with. PWA, React native, Flutter, or go fully native.
There's are quite compelling arguments for PWA and React native, the most important of which is that the rest of the team will
Linear Mobile v0.1
A fast, native experience for your cellular device.
Pre-order today:
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Our resident FE magician
@paul_dijou
created this absolutely gorgeous animating tooltip for our insights graphs. So good. And nostalgic. Takes me back to my Flash days 🥹.
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The WeWork on the 37th floor of the Salesforce tower is absolutely gorgeous. Having 3 floors for 50 people that pay $49/day is not sustainable though. Go there while you can.
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The last part of
@linear
that wasn’t already fully real-time - our document editor - is now real-time and collaborative.
This evolution in our system architecture has some interesting implementation details worth sharing with fellow engineers and tech enthusiasts:
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We use feature-flags extensively at
@linear
to incrementally work on new functionality. The new design was implemented using 430 instances of a feature flag. During the entire process we we able to easily switch between new and previous designs.
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ)
In six weeks, we redesigned Linear’s UI. Discover the new UI and story behind it:
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Felt like animating something today. What do you think of this state transition?
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A few years ago, I gave a talk at React Helsinki about the Linear Sync engine.
We have come a long way since then, so we recorded a sequel to that talk at our company offsite a few weeks ago, detailing the challenges we’ve overcome scaling the engine:
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Ever wanted to create an Apple Design Awards winning mobile app? Here might be your best chance to try to do exactly that. We at
@linear
are looking for our founding mobile engineer.
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I can’t even…
@pacocoursey
and
@ambedgar
have really outdone themselves with this holographic effect.
Also 🤯 on the list of companies that are using
@linear
nowadays:
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What to do during hack-week? Work on the small, almost impossible to see details, of course! You have to zoom in to appreciate the new cycle icon and its display of progress.
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I refuse to believe that Europe doesn’t have seasoned backend engineers with experience scaling services to millions of users. We at
@linear
have spent ages trying to find these engineers, yet have only found them in the U.S. Please prove me wrong!
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Psst… Your team can be on Linear without the rest of the organization even noticing.
New changelog:
Jira Sync ♺
› Sync issues bi-directionally between Linear and Jira
› Mirror core issue attributes including labels and priority
› Collaborate across tools in synced comment threads
🔗:
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Where are all the European designers at? We just don’t seem to be able to find great ones.
So let me put up a (different kind of) bounty: If you refer a product designer that we hire, you can request a small feature and I’ll personally build it for you!
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At the risk of sounding like a douche, I think the team
@linear
will go down in history as one of the best builders of high quality software products.
Incredibly proud to be part of the team as we launch Insights today. Analytics, done the Linear way.
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The most important thing we do
@linear
in order to keep quality high is hire people that care about quality. No need for processes, practices or rules when you have people who refuse to ship anything that they can’t put their name on.
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1/ Thrilled to announce
@linear_app
’s $13M Series A led by
@sequoia
. The next generation of startups builds with Linear and this funding will help us accelerate our mission to build the best tool for product teams.
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Huge congrats to
@loom
on the acquisition!
On a side-note, my favorite
@linear
customer quote just got very real.
Today
@loom
is joining
@Atlassian
. We have entered a definitive agreement for Atlassian to acquire Loom for $975m. And we are insanely hyped.
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If building something great isn’t painful, you’re probably not building the best you can. Arguments, mis-steps, fights, back-tracking, re-discovering, frustration, throwing it away, trying again - these are all painful requirements for build a great product.
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Excited! We’ve started a new company,
@linear_app
! I’m lucky to have
@jorilallo
and
@karrisaarinen
join me in creating , an issue tracker designed for product teams, meeting the needs of today’s engineer.
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1/ Thrilled to announce that
@linear_app
raised $4.2M from no other than
@Sequoia
and
@indexventures
and a ton of awesome angels. Truly humbled by the trust that all of you folks are putting in us.
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Twenty minutes away from me I got places like this.
my main theory for why atlassian products look and behave the way they do is because the people responsible for them are twenty minutes away from places like this
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Excited to share that we’ve raised our $35M Series B led by
@Accel
, along with
@sequoia
and
@01Adivsors
as well as some incredible industry leaders and operators.
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Another upside from our sync architecture
@linear
is extremely light infrastructure requirements. Linear can run on only one application server (16 CPU, 50GB mem) for every 40.000 active weekly users.
This is probably an order of magnitude better than regular architectures.
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Even though we try to ship very quickly, sometimes you just have to wait a while for the good stuff.
We initially started work on improving projects and the project page in particular more than 2 years ago at an offsite in Berlin. The initial designs had a lot in common with what
Introducing the next evolution of projects in Linear.
Close the gap between planning and building.
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One of the major reasons we chose GCP was that it’s console was way better.
Hot take:
Almost every hosting startup (vercel, supabase, fly, render, etc) can only exist because AWS console is such a mess.
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For a pretty old - but still relevant - talk on our sync engine, check out:
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We did record an internal follow up to my Sync Engine talk from more than three years ago (), detailing all the challenges we’ve overcome scaling sync. Is that something you might be interested in?
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Just had our second DDoS attack. We were better prepared this time around. Website was inaccessible for a few minutes as our pods scaled up, something to improve. Client didn’t even notice. Thank you attacker for the exercise!
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My favorite quote from
@VegetablesReidy
@loom
regarding how their product team enjoys
@linear
: “Around 80% of people using Linear said they would consider quitting if asked to switch tools.”
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BTC accounts for 0.56% of the worlds energy consumption. Insanity! Shut that shit down and move to a model that doesn’t use proof-of-work. If not, governments should step in and make it illegal to mine in order to fight climate change.
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Wrapping up 2021 at
@linear
, it caught me by surprise how much we'be shipped this year. Just the major features from our changelog:
Split inbox, Linear guide , Front integration, Universal links, New filters, Cycle improvements, Project docs, SOC 2, Audit log....
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The last thing folks
@linear
would think is that a feature is "complete". For every single thing that you see us ship, the product team has a backlog of issues they would dearly want to improve or add.
We have a mindset of shipping things when they are "good enough" (cutting
@artman
It's refreshing to see a project management tool that keeps finding ways to improve on features that could easily be called"complete". It's an incredibe contrast to what I usually see, where changes happen at a glacial pace, if at all. "That feature is complete, why change it?"
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First iMac Pro tests indicate that you’ll get almost no Swift Xcode compilation performance gains compared to a recent MBP.
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Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is if often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea. You have to out-execute from day 1.
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Used to be that if you wanted to have a heated discussion with engineers, you would say that React Native isn't as good as building natively.
Used to, and still is.
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If you found this interesting, we’re hiring!
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To create a new feature as an engineer, you essentially render and modify local in-memory data structures to build new functionality. All the complexity that comes with requests, conflicts, network errors and retries are handled by sync for free.
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One reason Apple might have peaked is that their hardware is just too good. When the M3 came out, I got one for the whole family. Chances are that - if you exclude myself - these will last 10 years.
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First changelog of the year, and it’s a whopper.
Introducing Jira Link. For teams that want to use Linear, but can’t convince their entire organization to switch over in one go.
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We’ve now restored data on 98% of the affected workspaces. The rest still have a higher error rate on restoration we’re looking at whether those errors are recoverable. EU just went to bed and handed off the work the engineers in the US. Hoping that we’re all done when I wake up.
Earlier today, Linear experienced an outage and data loss incident. We have restored service and are actively recovering lost data. Below is a status report we shared with affected customers.
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How long does it take
@linear_app
to filter all issues for bugs assigned to a specific user? With our new free text search filtering, it takes me 0.58 seconds (blink and you'll miss it!). What's your time?
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Our longest changelog by far. In 3 weeks we shipped 100 individual improvements and fixes, with many improvements focusing on our editor. Feels good to ship at this velocity.
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Meanwhile in Finland: Unlimited 5G data at 1 Gigabit/sec for €29.99 a month.
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Like writing prose, there’s a deep proficiency in writing good code. Two implementations with no difference in run-time functionality can be vastly different. For good engineers, runtime functionality and perf is table stakes, and the differentiator comes from maintainability.
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It still sitting there a week later when you get home from vacation. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
$3,000 on my front porch. The European mind cannot comprehend this:
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@DavidChoiMusic
@Uber
The root cause is that people stopped caring about the craft. The top reasons:
Hyper growth. You’re a cog in a big machine and you realize that you can’t affect the outcome.
Misaligned incentives. There are many more metrics that are easier to measure and move faster than UX.
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As you can imagine, reducing the number of layers engineers have to work on dramatically improves the speed at which we can ship new functionality. After experiencing this architecture at scale, I'm spoiled for life.
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It’s time to push back against the forces of stagnation. It’s time for change.
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I might be too old to learn new things. Either that, or Mastodon just sucks.
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For the past few weeks, we've been focusing on optimizing
@linear
's startup performance. Even though we're always thinking about performance, it's amazing how much you can move the needle by focusing on it — 50% faster, up to 80% more memory efficient.
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I know that I’m going to enjoy this one! When you start filling out a new issue,
@linear
will now use LLM’s to semantically find similar issues so that you don’t enter duplicates.
New this week:
› Similar issues (AI)
› Overview sidebar for Views, Roadmaps
› View Owners
› Rich embeds
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I’m speaking at Local-First Conf in Berlin, a small gathering of builders who know what’s need to build great user experiences.
Announcing Local-First Conf 2024
The first in-person local-first conference for software builders.
📅 30th May 2024
🌍 Berlin, Germany
Get your ticket today. Only 150 available. 👇
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Most of the
@linear
team has been enjoying some time off but that hasn’t stopped us from shipping a ton of performance improvements, fixes and enhancements:
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Excited to welcome Cristina Cordova as our new COO to help us accelerate our mission to become the new standard in building software.
Fun fact: I’ve used every single product that Cristina has worked on in her career.
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Excited to be an angel investor in Rise. My time management at Uber would have seriously benefited from what Rise is building.
We’re excited to announce that we raised $3M for Rise from
@lachygroom
,
@stewart
,
@adriaanmol
and a long list of brilliant angel investors.
With it we are building the worlds smartest calendar that helps teams get important work done.
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Sync automatically takes care of generating API calls, creating transactions, applying them on the backend, handling conflicts and errors, reverting erroneous changes, rebasing in-fight changes, and offline capabilities.
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The most helpful change GitHub could make to the code review process is to allow people to re-order files in their PR. Current code reviews are like reading a book's chapters in random order. It all makes sense once you're done, but takes a lot of time and cross-referencing.
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Did Satya just buy OpenAI without buying it?
@sama
I’m super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios,
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It’s sad that many European startups don’t share their success with employees. At Linear, all employees, including European, are given hefty equity. Even a moderate success would mean that people who join now would earn multiple millions. A big success should be life changing.
I asked an early Adyen engineer what they’ll do after the $50B IPO. (The same engineer at Uber/Stripe would conservatively have $2M+ vested stock - realistically 10x this). Angel invest? Start a company?
This person didn’t understand. They had less than $20K in stock.
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When you say that you have to “wrangle the TS compiler”, most often than not the compiler is right, and you code requires improving.
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@hamax1
@Uber
You’re joking, but I think that’s actually true. And by “we” I mean early engineers who gave a damn about UX. Still remember my first PRs, when
@loganrockmore
took out a ruler and rejected them because the pickup-pin was 2 pixels off center.
Take out the ruler now.
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The Finnish government drops recommendations of staying 6 feet apart and everyone sighs in relief. Finally we can get back to staying 9 feet apart.
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Was looking forward to writing a blog post about the sync tech we built at
@linear_app
, but then saw
@figmadesign
post. Spooky that our approaches are identical right down to reparenting and fractional indexing. No need to write one now, just read theirs:
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Back in San Francisco after 4 years. Excited (and a bit scared) to see what has happened to my city.
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At
@Uber
, part of our secret sauce was the API, which would let anyone send some bits to get (someone) a physical ride. At
@linear
, our API is also quickly becoming part of our secret sauce. Just today, we had
@incident_io
,
@scoopsofjam
and
@qualdesk
launch integrations with us.
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Don’t get me wrong, we still believe that real-time sync is essential, but there are two more valuable things we got out of real-time sync that we did not appropriately anticipate: **App speed** and **Ship speed**.
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So that others may learn from our mistakes, here are the gory details:
Following up on last week's incident, we are sharing a post mortem report with a full timeline of what happened, how we fixed it, and the changes we are making going forward.
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Passport control in Munich: 5 seconds. Keeps on amazing me how the old world runs laps around new world infrastructure and processes. Meanwhile SFO introduces creepy face-scanning that hardly makes things faster.
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