I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.…

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…

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

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…