When to skip the abstraction
Apr 21
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…
On giving talks I haven't given
May 9
I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…
One commit, two months of cleanup
Jul 22
I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…
Boring choices I keep making
Aug 7
Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when yo…
A small tool for big diffs
Jan 22
Caches solve a problem and create three new ones: invalidation, observability, and the slow drift between what the cache…