Reading the standard library
Apr 21
I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.…
Numbers I check before merging
Oct 30
There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…
A week without Slack
Apr 2
I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…
Sidecars and the things they hide
Mar 4
I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…
Three log lines that saved an outage
Dec 19
Caches solve a problem and create three new ones: invalidation, observability, and the slow drift between what the cache…