Engineering, architecture, the work itself
Notes from the floor. Deploys, infrastructure, the texture of shipping software for people who don't have time for software.
The half-life of a good tool
Three categories of tool exist in the working life of a professional: the tool you'll throw out in eighteen months, the tool you'll throw out in five years, and the tool that will, with mild adjustments, outlive you. Almost everyone confuses category one for category three.
read · 19 min →Latency is a worldview
Network engineering as a metaphor for how good thinkers structure their lives. Async, batched, queued, cached — and the one bad path that ruins all of them.
read · 14 min →EP 01 · The decision to build in public
Day one of writing the company down as I build it. What I want from this. What I'm afraid of.
read · 2 min →The five-line spec
Most features deserve a sticky note, not a doc.
read · 1 min →Shipping a killable feature
How to launch something you might delete in two weeks — without breaking trust.
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