Dispensing with all niceties, let’s get straight to the point: hiring the wrong person can be a disaster.

I’ve been a software engineer for over a decade.

This isn’t the first time I’ve thought about this - I think perhaps it’s cropped up in my mind a few times over the past decade.

Some of the best B2B SaaS products I’ve used started out as great consumer tools.

I’ve been using CleanShot for a bit over five years.

I’ve been dragged back into Jira after five years of bliss with Linear, and it’s rough.

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 replicates data types (CRDTs) are solutions to this problem.