Reading the standard library
Apr 21
The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests i…
Months of static analysis, two real bugs
Nov 11
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…
Why my CI got 4 minutes faster
Sep 8
If a config file has more than a dozen options, half of them aren't being used. The other half are being used in ways th…
Things broken on purpose
Jun 5
Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…
The cost of one extra round trip
Feb 19
The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests i…