A philosophy of naming conventions
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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The case against premature abstraction
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.
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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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These are my notes on building reliable, readable, maintainable systems. Interested in clarity over cleverness.
Thoughts on design. Updated weekly.
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