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What 11 PM Debugging Sessions Taught Me About Taking Notes
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What 11 PM Debugging Sessions Taught Me About Taking Notes

After months testing PKM tools during real debugging sessions, here's what actually works for engineers (and it's not about pretty pages).

LPLisa ParkDecember 7, 20257 min read
We Keep Arguing About Cursor vs Copilot. So I Actually Measured It.
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We Keep Arguing About Cursor vs Copilot. So I Actually Measured It.

I tracked 100 PRs over 90 days. Copilot won on acceptance rate, but Cursor's code needed fewer rewrites. Here's what the numbers actually showed.

APArjun PatelDecember 6, 20256 min read
I Asked Teams Why They Abandoned Their Code Review Tool. The Answer Was Always the Same.
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I Asked Teams Why They Abandoned Their Code Review Tool. The Answer Was Always the Same.

After talking to dozens of teams who ditched their code review tools, I found one question that predicts success better than any feature comparison.

MCMarcus ChenDecember 5, 20259 min read
I Spent 6 Months Migrating Our Team from Jira to Linear. Here's What Actually Happened.
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I Spent 6 Months Migrating Our Team from Jira to Linear. Here's What Actually Happened.

After 6 months of migration pain, our team's Jira tax dropped from 4% of engineering time to nearly zero. But we lost some features we didn't expect to miss.

PSPriya SharmaDecember 5, 20257 min read
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