Writing
Notes from the build log.
Mostly about developer experience, build pipelines, and the parts of an engineering org nobody puts on a slide.
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Mar 14, 2026
Measure before you cache
A short essay on the most expensive engineering mistake I have made repeatedly: assuming I knew where the time was going.
- #performance
- #pragmatism
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Jan 22, 2026
Why I stopped writing RFCs (and what I write instead)
After ten years of formal design docs, I changed the format. Here is what I do now and the kind of decisions it tends to produce.
- #process
- #engineering-orgs