<!doctype html><html lang=en><head><title>Mario Kart and the Maker's Schedule · Shallow Brook Software
</title><meta charset=utf-8><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><meta name=color-scheme content="light dark"><meta name=author content="Andrew Dailey"><meta name=description content="Many years ago, I stumbled onto Paul Graham&rsquo;s book Hackers and Painters.
It is a series of essays regarding software development, startup life, and spam filters.
Reading that book led me to 