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

I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…

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

I used to add a layer of abstraction the first time I saw a pattern repeat. Now I wait for the third. The waiting is unc…

Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…