When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…

I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…

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…

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me…

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.…