The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests i…

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

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

Caches solve a problem and create three new ones: invalidation, observability, and the slow drift between what the cache…

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