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A short list of useful Make targets

M. Tanaka · Oct 30

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

There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this out?" Often, no one does.

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.

If a config file has more than a dozen options, half of them aren't being used. The other half are being used in ways the original author didn't predict.

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when you go over.

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