The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half…

I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…

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…

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when yo…

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…