Incremental adoption of types
The tools we reach for shape our thinking. I've spent the last decade in terminals and shells, and it's changed how I approach problem-solving in subtle ways.
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- Building for the long tail · 51 minutes ago · 26,563 reads
- Lessons from legacy codebases · 7 hours ago
- The maintenance burden of frameworks · 4 hours ago
Building for the long tail
Distributed systems fail in ways that are hard to predict. After years of debugging production incidents, certain patterns keep recurring. This post explores a few.
From the archive
Naming is one of the hardest problems in software, yet we spend less time on it than we should. Let's talk about why it matters and how to get better at it.
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