Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…

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

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

I used to add a layer of abstraction the first time I saw a pattern repeat. Now I wait for the third. The waiting is unc…

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me…