REWORK

The DHH tweet that started it all - 00:36Wailin's tweet about the Chicago Tribune - 2:23Laura Hazard Owen on Twitter - 2:55NiemanLab - 3:34Consumer Federation of California - 4:21California Senate Bill 313, which former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law in 2017 - 5:40California News Publishers Association - 6:31The New York Times' cancellation screen - 9:36The Wall Street Journal's cancellation policy - 9:43The Washington Post's cancellation policy - 9:57Pete Mortensen on Twitter - 10:12Matter Ventures (which shut down in late 2018) - 10:18Jen Sabella on Twitter - 14:54Block Club Chicago - 14:59"Billionaire Owner Shuts Down DNAinfo, Gothamist Sites A Week After Workers Unionize" (NPR) - 15:09

Read David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post and Jeremy's follow-up post on the mass-login attack.Our episode on the Big Integer outage - 00:41The big Code Red moment starts at 3:06 of this clip but c'mon, just watch the whole thing - 00:48Jim Mackenzie on Twitter - 1:15Background on the data breaches at Marriott, Equifax, and Yahoo - 1:53Jeremy Daer on Twitter - 2:10"It's a Unix system!" - 7:24Have I Been Pwned? - 13:471Password, LastPass, Dashlane - 14:52"Clever girl" - 17:24"I've got the same combination on my luggage!" - 17:29

In 2004, Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson released a framework called Ruby on Rails that has since been used by over 1.2 million web applications including Twitter, Airbnb, Hulu, and, of course, Basecamp. In this bonus episode of Rework, David talks about creativity, finding a passion, and how writing Ruby changed the way he thinks about programming.

Hello, Mallory - 00:20The Baby-Sitters Club - 00:40Aja Hammerly's website - 2:18Aja's post, "There Is No Perfect Interview" - 2:22Aja's tweets on hiring from November 2018 - 7:24A blog post by Basecamp CEO Jason Fried that talks about design challenges - 14:20Aja on Twitter - 23:15For further reading from Basecamp on this topic, Jim Mackenzie on the Support team has written some great Signal v. Noise posts about hiring: "Interview or Interrogation?" and "Under Pressure"

The IceCube website - 00:46What is a neutrino? (Scientific American) - 1:13SNOLAB in Canada is an example of a neutrino observatory located in an old mine - 1:58When neutrinos collide with other particles, a blue light is emitted. This is what IceCube detects. Read more about this blue light and IceCube in this article from the National Science Foundation - 2:13Emsisoft - 2:48Skynet satellite (and the other Skynet) - 4:38Mt. Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano on the planet - 14:00The Thing (the 1982 version by John Carpenter) - 19:28The IceCube website has an entire section about living at the South Pole - 26:53The defibrillator scene in The Thing (Warning: VERY SCARY! And gross!) - 27:39The blood test scene in The Thing (Warning: ALSO VERY SCARY AND GROSS) - 27:50

"Happy Pacifists," our episode about violent rhetoric (and its opposite) in business - 00:24"Big Integer," our episode about how Basecamp managed a major outage - 00:30"Spark Joy with DHH," our episode about applying Marie Kondo's tidying-up principles to business - 00:38Liz Fosslien's website. Mollie West Duffy's website. Their joint website. - 1:22No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions At Work - 1:28IDEO - 1:54Humu - 2:08Gretchen Rubin - 12:09The Shultz Hour, named after former Secretary of State George Shultz - 19:25Liz and Mollie on Instagram - 35:42The Book Table - 36:00"Independent Women," the episode of our previous podcast about Women & Children First bookstore - 36:03

Signal v. Noise - 1:49Episode 01, "Sell Your By-products" - 2:00"Signal v. Noise moves to Medium" - 2:37Jason Fried and Adam Stoddard - 2:48Medium's changed policy on custom domains - 3:55Medium's membership program - 6:10A Vox article on how Tumblr's ban on adult content negatively affects the broader community - 7:30History of WordPress - 9:55A Quartz article on how WordPress employees work remotely - 10:03Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress - 10:15"Medium has been great for us" - 15:51An Atlantic article about seasonally attired porch geese - 20:00

Marie Kondo’s official website - 00:14Marie Kondo's interpreter is Marie Iida and here's a Quartz interview with her - 00:28Author Courtney Milan's Twitter thread on Marie Kondo's misunderstood advice about books - 00:49Everything Wailin learned about arguing on social media she learned from DHH in the "Pick A Fight" episode of Rework - 1:00The Life Changing-Magic of Tidying Up - 1:12Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck - 6:42The history of the We Work Remotely job board is written up in the last entry of this page of the Basecamp handbook - 9:06Basecamp decided to sunset Highrise in 2018. Read Jason's note on the Highrise website - 9:32

On Thursday, November 8, Basecamp 3 went down for almost five hours. It was the worst outage to hit the company in a decade and a stress test of Basecamp's practices around internal communication, customer support, and calm work. Today's episode goes inside the company on November 8 to see how the outage unfolded.Show NotesJason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's most recent book, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work - 1:41Basecamp's Support team - 6:03Basecamp's Status page - 6:40DHH's timeline from November 8 and his post-mortem, published on Signal v. Noise - 6:46Our episode on "How to Say You're Sorry" - 15:57

We tried to record an episode, but there were more important things to talk about. See you in 2019 with more episodes of REWORK.