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Joan Gamell
Personal blog · graymatters.substack.comcareerproductivity
Joan Gamell writes Gray Matters, a personal blog at graymatters.substack.com about career and productivity. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joan Gamell's essay on why easy-to-use apps are not necessarily easy to build. It is cited to argue that ease of use and ease of building are different things.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Loosely related knowledge for the New Normal.
What Hacker News says?
> Something any fifteen year old can write with web sockets. This is clearly a case of confounding an app being easy to use, with it being easy to build [1] [1] - https://graymatters.substack.com/p/-why-easy-to-use-apps-are...
Comment linking /p/-why-easy-to-use-apps-are-complex
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