Posts

2026

You are the bottleneck Feb 28

If code is cheap, intent is the currency Feb 24

A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh Feb 11

Only use agents for tasks you already know how to do Feb 9

2025

SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens Nov 27

So you want to build AI agent group chat? Nov 15

Patterns for building realtime features Feb 6

2024

Phone call asymmetry May 3

Every programmer should know Apr 30

2023

How to adopt Realtime updates in your app Nov 23

You don't need CRDTs for collaborative experiences Nov 16

Giving up my smartphone - Duoqin F22 Pro Nov 4

Do developers really want to give over their data? Oct 20

So you want to build Miro and Figma style collaboration? Oct 5

Streaming data aggregation Aug 23

The egg test: a model for reversible and irreversible decision making Aug 17

Standard lib structured logging in Go 1.21 Aug 8

So, you want to deploy on the edge? Jul 31

Theory of a program Jul 10

Radical and incremental change Apr 3

Writing confidently with ChatGPT Feb 17

2022

Backend for the Frontend, and incentives Nov 22

Aggregates: one piece of code design Oct 10

Please don't write "point of view" Aug 2

Debugging Linkerd for mislabelled route metrics Jul 29

Addicted to on-call Jun 25

Tragedy of the codebase commons Jun 20

Consistently executable interviews Jun 9

usable java setup vim May 19

docker login error on m1 May 12

power distance in comms May 3

penduluming Apr 27

santander cycles app Apr 25

email workflow Mar 18

change the battlefield Jan 31

focus on what is, then what to do about it Jan 18

when to share your mental model Jan 14

who wrote this shit? Jan 10

connecting the dots requires listening Jan 5

2021

product ideation is dysfunctional Dec 21

bridge the gap in differences, with the right language Nov 23

positive and negative freedoms Oct 29

failure demand Oct 21

don't design a system to avoid a component you don't understand Oct 18

vuepress search h4 Oct 7

know your frogs 🐸 Sep 24

habit tracker Sep 6

explain using analogies May 25

prefer regular adhoc meetings Mar 15

notion: set full width off 🙏 Mar 2

object storage pricing Feb 16

time complexity Feb 12

custom annotation naming Jan 5

estimate, predict, forecast Jan 4

2020

mfa key recovery Dec 8

inclusion Dec 4

naming is hard Oct 5

syncthing May 28

hyperoptic ipv6 Apr 15

video conferencing Apr 9

what makes a good software engineer? Mar 26

pr checklist Mar 22

mvp service level objectives Mar 2

beware anecdotal evidence Feb 17

data modelling in saas apps Jan 29

effectiveness as an engineer Jan 20

brooks law, hierarchy, and async comms Jan 16

2019

experienced engineers pattern match Dec 11

short vs. long lifetime structs Nov 26

go 1.13: errors.As(...) Oct 27

the power and danger of consistency Jun 20

high performing teams burnout together May 2

metrics for team contributions Apr 29

kubernetes generated names Apr 26

docs requirements Apr 11

git: co-authored by Mar 29

micromanagement Mar 25

go get private repo Mar 25

Keeping a logbook with vim Mar 20

2018

2018: reading list Dec 16

the cost of extrinsic motivators Nov 25

options make decisions Oct 27

Limitations of EKS Sep 20

go concurrency correctness Sep 4

proverb driven development Aug 29

go's anonymous functions in loops May 13

programming mental models Apr 20

working with me Mar 14

go ast got visitor pattern wrong Feb 25

libraries considered harmful Jan 6

2017

slack @here is bad for your team Dec 19

mastering golang taught me java Nov 13

on meetup talks Jul 15

building blocks of go services May 28

function as an interface May 18

golang gotchas May 10

structs and named types Apr 24

deepend Apr 14

patterns in go Apr 5

developer abc Mar 26

downtime Mar 20

don't fear the junior engineer Mar 15

hello world Mar 9