Notes on small caches
Sep 27
When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…
Reading the standard library
Feb 5
When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…
When to skip the abstraction
Sep 8
I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…
A short list of useful Make targets
Dec 6
Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when yo…
One commit, two months of cleanup
Mar 18
I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…