The cost of one extra round trip
Jun 5
There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…
Notes on small caches
Nov 28
Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…
The minimum useful README
Aug 25
There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…
Numbers I check before merging
Oct 30
I used to add a layer of abstraction the first time I saw a pattern repeat. Now I wait for the third. The waiting is unc…
Sidecars and the things they hide
May 24
I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…