Stop Premature Abstractions: Write the Code Three Times Before You Generalize
The Rule of Three prevents architecture astronautics and keeps your codebase honest
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
The Case Against Microservices for Your Startup
Distributed systems are expensive. Monoliths are boring. Boring wins.
Monorepos Are Worth the Pain (If You Use the Right Tools)
Turborepo, Nx, and the art of managing complexity instead of avoiding it
Bun Is the JavaScript Runtime Nobody Asked For (That We Desperately Need)
A new contender enters the ring against Node.js and Deno, and the benchmarks are absurd
The Developer Experience Gap Is the New Performance Gap
Teams that optimize for DX ship faster, retain better, and produce fewer bugs
GitHub Copilot Just Shipped, and Everything Is Different Now
The first real AI pair programmer is here—and it’s both more useful and more dangerous than you think
Tailwind CSS: The Ugly Truth About Why It Works
Utility-first CSS is aesthetically offensive and pragmatically brilliant
Elixir Is the Best-Kept Secret in Web Development
The BEAM VM’s concurrency model solves problems other runtimes paper over with horizontal scaling
PostgreSQL Won the Database War While Nobody Was Watching
How an elephant quietly became the only database most developers will ever need
Vim Motions Changed How I Think About Text Editing
You don’t need to switch to Neovim—just learn the grammar of modal editing