Boring choices I keep making
Apr 21
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…
Reading the standard library
Jun 19
Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me…
Quiet UIs and loud bugs
Sep 8
The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half…
Months of static analysis, two real bugs
Dec 6
The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half…
When to skip the abstraction
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…