Essays and shorter takes on the systems we build and operate. Honest, not hot.
Everything we've learned about staying fast at three to six engineers, compressed into six operational decisions we'd defend in any review.
Everything we had to build to ship this site into the German market — and why most of it was the good kind of work.
Most team chat tools assume every conversation belongs in a room. The ones that matter most rarely do. A short argument for keeping 1:1 contact separate from rooms — and what that means when you are building the platform.
Drafts in various states of finish. Titles are working titles, not promises.
A working theory on when flags belong in the runtime and when they belong in the UI.
A post-mortem on an eval that passed CI and still regressed in production.
Why the FinOps dashboards land after the fact, and what to catch earlier.
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