Engineering excellence is not an absolute standard. Quality depends on context, tradeoffs, and ultimately, the business decision.
17 Sept 2026
Interviews suck, hiring is hard
Technical interviews often measure what is easy to evaluate rather than what the job actually requires. Is there a better way?
9 Sept 2026
Post-Mortems and Accountability
A post-mortem should explain what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. It is probably the most technical meeting in the development process.
31 Aug 2026
The CMS trap
Abstractions make software easier to work with, until maintaining the abstraction becomes more work than solving the problem it was meant to simplify.
25 Aug 2026
Beyond recall and the illusion of competence
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.
9 Aug 2026
Mindful coding: Purpose and intention
Good code doesn't only describe what it does. It communicates why it exists. A look at how intent shapes names, abstractions, comments, and commit messages.
2 Aug 2026
Retries don't fix eventual consistency
Retries are great for transient failures, but they can't solve eventual consistency. Treating one problem as the other often adds unnecessary complexity to distributed systems.
26 Jul 2026
What even are microservices?
Everyone recognizes a microservice but nobody can define one. That's because microservices don't solve a technical problem, they solve an organizational one.
19 Jul 2026
Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
12 Jul 2026
GraphQL: The leakiest of abstractions
Every abstraction leaks. GraphQL is the only one I know that leaks in both directions: out to the frontend and back into the backend.
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