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…

When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…

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

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…