Maxim Siebert

Software designer & developer, building and

[Maxim Siebert @MaximSiebert]

I recently got back into photography and I was quickly disappointed with the options to share my photos. Platforms have become full of ads and videos, photos are cropped and compressed.

So I built my own. Splitfocus is an intentionally simple photography focused platform.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

My favorite thing @om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing you can read on running a business. Better than any book, better than any article.

Read it:
https://t.co/Nq8cmtxILT

[Maxim Siebert @MaximSiebert]

@euronationalizt @Planet_bel Most desks with monitors should be against the wall, look at the amount of cables under that desk, now imagine that being the first thing you see with a desk facing the door.

[Maxim Siebert @MaximSiebert]

@dmcgco Qobuz!

[Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov]

Look at these 2 UIs.

One of them will 100% outperform the other for one reason.

Miller's Law.

Here's how this psychological principle works & how to use it in your products:

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Be curious about what's new, sure. That's expected.

But it's more interesting to be curious about what's old. 
What stood the test of time? What worked before and still works now? What survived through all the jabs that you assumed would knock it out, but didn't?

That's worth attention. That's worth being curious about. Those are the things that are particularly interesting. There are the lessons.

New will always be new. There will always be another new after the previous new. But what made it, what sticks around, what outlasts? What's durable? What's the reason that rare thing is still here?

Longevity isn't a fluke. It's an opportunity to get on board when you missed it before.

Curiosity about things still here isn’t just nostalgia — it’s a strategic way to filter the noise and find what truly matters, what truly works, and what's truly worth investing in.

[Chris Hendrixson @inkdryer]

This from the wonderful and thorough @HermanMiller brand standards website — https://t.co/xc4aGjCSx6 — is an important guideline that sooooooo many websites get wrong

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

When people talk about great teams, they'll talk about hard work, trust, respect, looking out for one another, etc. All good things.

But there's one quality amongst teammates on great teams that often goes unrecognized by all but the most astute organizational observers: Admiration.

Great teams are made of people who *admire* one another's talents, skills, character, and contributions. Great teams are mutual admiration societies that get to work together.

Admiration is the critical, silent variable in the powerful formula that equals exceptional teamwork.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

There are the rare 10x developers, yes, but the real thing to cultivate is the 10x environment. Make that common, and it's a boost like no other. (same applies to designers, writers, customer service, etc).

https://t.co/IObXJjinrX

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Product work is about deciding what not to do, when.

[DHH @dhh]

This is perhaps the biggest secret to the productivity and viability of our two-person teams at 37signals. All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby. Not in Figma. https://t.co/Fu29nvteCx

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

Obviously, auto layout, prototyping, dev mode, etc. is a huge deal...

But there were a LOT of amazing features released at Config that are easier to miss 👀

Creating a running list of some of my favorites as I find them 👇

[Shane Taylor @ShaneTaylor22]

Dinner for one, Soho

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

"Companies love to protect. NDAs, trademarks, etc. But they spend their employees’ time & attention as if there was an infinite supply of both. As if they cost nothing. Yet employees’ time and attention are among the scarcest resources we have."

https://t.co/Vk8edR1akf

[Colin @colinlienard]

Introducing GitLight ✨ - GitHub and GitLab notifications on your desktop, open-source, made with @TauriApps and @sveltejs

I've been working on this project for a few months now and I think it's time to share it! (Not all the features are finished yet)

https://t.co/AnhOuyFe36

[Maxim Siebert @MaximSiebert]

@noahkalina I recently built Splitfocus exactly for this. Very simple, let's anyone share images in a clean and simple way and also lets you group them via projects.

https://t.co/HkAx3aEs83

[Maxim Siebert @MaximSiebert]

I recently got back into photography and I was quickly disappointed with the options to share my photos. Platforms have become full of ads and videos, photos are cropped and compressed.

So I built my own. Splitfocus is an intentionally simple photography focused platform.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

“Yet”

One little word that can open your world.

https://t.co/747pVVpk5I

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

When starting @linear, one of ours goal was to inspire the industry to focus more on quality. I was so tired seeing the subpar execution and the data lead approach to building products

Happy see this new wave is coming alive with @browsercompany, @Cron (+other Linear customers)

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Me and @bit_christ made a bot that allows you to talk to your codebase and it’s amazing how insightful it is. DM me if you want access.

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

collected some of my thoughts on craft at scale, and why it can become a big challenge:

https://t.co/l4qY2TELFV