The Maestro blog
Notes on coordinating tools, calm workflows, and the people who build them.
One post a week, on Mondays.
Engineering
How we wrote a Linear connector in 200 lines
By Suki Tanaka · 6 min · 22 April 2026
Linear's GraphQL API is the easy part. The hard part is webhook coalescing.
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Standup time: 25 → 11 minutes
By Aiyana Ferreira · 4 min · 18 April 2026
A small case-study from Lattice Tea: what we changed, what stayed.
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The case against the inbox metaphor
By Marit Bakker · 9 min · 11 April 2026
Inboxes pile up. Timelines run out. Why we picked the second.
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Idempotent two-way sync, explained
By Tomás Rivera · 12 min · 03 April 2026
When “mark as done” could trigger an infinite loop, you write more guards.
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We're hiring designers
By Iris Mokoena · 3 min · 28 March 2026
Two open roles. What we look for, what we don't.
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A founder's notification budget
By Marcus Allen · 5 min · 21 March 2026
Spend it on the team. Don't spend it on tools that want your attention.
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