Desktop life

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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Zoom H4NLeaked images from the 16" Macbook ProNew Transistor marketing site (unreleased)Current Transistor marketing siteWhy you need a co-founderMultiple computing threadsBootstrapped Web: product brain vs marketing brainTailwind CSSBasecamp switched to us (episode)Rework podcast: some marketing things they're going to tryFeature announcement newsletterHow WebSub for podcasts works

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