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Paws and Deadlines: clean workplace comedy with deadlines, meetings and office-cat logic.
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Paws and Deadlines #5: Define Done
Penny tries to define Done before launch, but Dex and Nimbus reveal that everyone uses the word differently…
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Paws and Deadlines #74: Mouse Tracking
August 31, 2026
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Paws and Deadlines #74: Mouse Tracking
Paws and Deadlines #67: One Minute, Exactly
Paws and Deadlines #53: The Focus Package
Paws and Deadlines #46: The Team Photo
Paws and Deadlines #39: Tiny Addition
Paws and Deadlines #32: One Button
Paws and Deadlines #25: The Quiet Reviewer
Paws and Deadlines #18: Page One Is a Hallway
Paws and Deadlines #11: The Ping
Paws and Deadlines #5: Define Done
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August 31, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #74: Mouse Tracking
Dex connects the WhiskerWorks analytics dashboard to a harmless wind-up toy mouse, and Bean reports four hundred percent engagement after all four coworkers chase the live input.
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August 24, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #67: One Minute, Exactly
A one-minute WhiskerWorks meeting lasts until sunset because every comment restarts the timer - and Bean is counting every perfectly exact minute.
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August 12, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #53: The Focus Package
WhiskerWorks installs premium focus pods, but the team gets its best work done inside the shipping boxes - making the unused pods easy to return and their packaging…
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August 3, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #46: The Team Photo
Nimbus's team-building exercise becomes a literal office model that only stands while the entire team holds it - leaving nobody free to take the victory photo.
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July 27, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #39: Tiny Addition
A tiny client request multiplies across WhiskerWorks until the team contains the scope - and discovers the scope contains the office.
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July 21, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #32: One Button
Penny asks for fewer approval steps, Dex builds one button, and WhiskerWorks discovers the cost of approving everything at once.
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July 13, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #25: The Quiet Reviewer
Penny asks Dex for another pair of eyes on a release review, and a silent rubber duck accidentally passes the process all the way to senior reviewer.
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July 6, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #18: Page One Is a Hallway
Nimbus asks for a one-page launch summary, Dex turns one page into an infinite-scroll webpage, and Bean finds out the scrollbar has a horizon.
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June 29, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #11: The Ping
Penny asks for one quick status ping, Dex automates it, and the WhiskerWorks office discovers a notification loop ambitious enough to schedule a meeting about itself.
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June 25, 2026
Paws and Deadlines #5: Define Done
Penny tries to define Done before launch, but Dex and Nimbus reveal that everyone uses the word differently until Bean finds the real blocker.
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