On reading other people's code
Jun 5
I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.…
Quiet UIs and loud bugs
Sep 8
I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…
Sidecars and the things they hide
Nov 11
I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…
Building things that survive me
Jan 22
I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…
Tools I uninstalled this month
Aug 7
Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…