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Engineering
3 essays on engineering.
Engineering
The quiet death of the API redesign
Once, big companies shipped version 2.0 with great fanfare. Now they ship it at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday and call it a flag. Something has changed — and it’s not just tooling.
Engineering
What the local-first movement gets right (and what it keeps getting wrong)
Syncing data across your devices shouldn't require believing in a server. The local-first community has done the hard work of saying that out loud. The rest of the conversation is harder than it looks.
Engineering
On not using a framework
A small, defensive essay about the things you learn by writing software without the thing everyone else is using, and why those lessons are not transferable to everyone but are real.