Why I write here
Notes on keeping a place of my own on the web, and why a personal site still earns its keep in an age of platforms.
The cost of a dependency
Every package you add is a promise to maintain something you did not write, on a schedule you do not control.
Software that fits in your head
On the underrated engineering property of being small enough to reason about in one sitting, without a diagram.
What AI changed about writing code
The bottleneck moved from typing to deciding, and most teams have not reorganised around the new constraint yet.
Economics is a study of tradeoffs
Why the discipline is less about money than about the shape of the choices left once resources run out.
The web is still the best platform
Twenty years of predictions about its replacement, and the open document model keeps outliving every challenger.
Against premature abstraction
The second time you write something similar is rarely enough evidence to know what the abstraction should be.