Small Wins
666113.cc

One commit, two months of cleanup

M. Tanaka · Dec 6

When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out which mental model of mine was wrong, and update that.

The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half the time I notice the bug while writing the sentence.

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.

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