Matt Gardner

Everyone's Measuring Developer Productivity. Almost No One Knows What It Means

Someone once asked me: “Our builds take 45 minutes.

Oct 30, 2025 • Matt Gardner

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Your Metrics Are Lying: What High-Performing Teams Actually Look Like

Why the invisible work your team does matters more than the metrics you're tracking—and how to measure what actually matters.

Oct 7, 2025 • Matt Gardner

September 2025

July 2025

The Best Way to Apply for a Job (It’s Not What You Think)

Why “Easy Apply” might be killing your chances — and what to do instead.

Jul 28, 2025 • Matt Gardner

It’s amazing how companies reply—or don’t—to job applications.

Are these jobs even real? Why would a company post fake jobs? Turns out, it's not what you think.

Jul 25, 2025 • Matt Gardner

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I never thought my blackjack dealer would design my business card

Most business cards get thrown away, this one wont.

Jul 15, 2025 • Matt Gardner

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Why isn't there a Superhuman for Fastmail?

There should be an amazingly productive email client for things other than Gmail or Outlook

Jul 1, 2025 • Matt Gardner

June 2025

Building a Platform That Doesn’t Suck: Lessons from Scale and Beyond

If you don’t build apps on your own platform, it’s just code. Here’s how to do it right.

Jun 20, 2025 • Matt Gardner

Analyzing my Writing

After a bit of reflection on my posts over the past year, I came to some conclusions.

Jun 16, 2025 • Matt Gardner

May 2025

Building Tomorrow, Today.

I'm working on a camp for kids to learn programming, computer skills, programming Minecraft, and more. It's called Teen Tech Camp, and in this post I…

May 23, 2025 • Matt Gardner

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JobTracker - An update

Now supporting native LinkedIn jobs and rich text editing!

May 15, 2025 • Matt Gardner

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I got sick and tired of trying to track job applications, so I scratched my own itch.

Why I built a browser extension instead of another feature

May 12, 2025 • Matt Gardner