When to skip the abstraction
Apr 2
Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…
Notes on small caches
Sep 8
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…
Why I went back to plain text
Sep 27
I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…
Quiet UIs and loud bugs
May 9
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…
On giving talks I haven't given
Dec 6
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…