One commit, two months of cleanup
Aug 7
The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half…
Things broken on purpose
Dec 6
I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…
A short tour of /proc
Jan 8
The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests i…
Boring choices I keep making
Oct 12
Most of the trouble I see in production comes from boundary cases someone promised would never happen. The code is fine.…
A week without Slack
Nov 28
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…