I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…

There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…

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

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…

Caches solve a problem and create three new ones: invalidation, observability, and the slow drift between what the cache…