When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…

Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me…

There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…

I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…