The cultural cost of a bad hire
How a single bad hire can become cultural rot, fracturing teams, slowing delivery, and driving away top talent through bureaucratic chaos and toxic behavior.
Will Hackett
Recent Notes
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Tinfoil hat moment this evening, could Cloudflare be a NSA front?
A tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory pondering whether Cloudflare's ubiquitous presence as a CDN, DNS provider, and certificate authority could be the perfect cover for surveillance.
I think B2C is the best way to a successful B2B product
Why the most successful B2B SaaS products like Canva, Shopify, and Notion started as beloved consumer tools before conquering enterprise markets.
Friday night code sessions - a lazy CleanShot X alternative
Building a DIY screenshot sharing solution using Cloudflare R2, Workers, and Siri Shortcuts as an alternative to CleanShot X's cloud features.
It's 2025, and JIRA is still clunky
A frustrated rant about JIRA's clunky interface and poor user experience after switching back from Linear's elegant project management.
Operational transformation & conflict-free resolution for real-time collaboration applications
Recently talking with a company that needs to provide real-time collaboration within their application, I started to think about the problem. Operational transformation (OT) and conflict-free replicat...
Techniques to make rebasing less of a headache
I often see developers causing git spaghetti. Here's how to fix it, and it's super easy.
I built a GPT-powered email assistant - Jamie
Jamie is a project I embarked on to build a human-like virtual assistant that I could CC on emails to take care of my admin. It was originally going to be Open Source, but I've decided to make it into...
Sharing encrypted data over short-form mediums
Sharing large amounts of data over short-form mediums like QR codes or NFC tags can be challenging. The data needs to be encrypted to ensure confidentiality, but packing useful data into a small space...
Distributed Trust with Service-to-Service Authentication
In Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) the "services" are the fundamental building blocks of your application. Authenticating requests between services is a challenge.
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