There is a quiet truth that most senior practitioners of grappling will admit, but rarely in public: the belt around your waist tells you something about how you move on the mat. It tells you very little about who you've become because of the mat.
Read the full entry →The tool had been running our shell commands for weeks without incident. Then, during a routine infrastructure pass, operations began failing in ways that had no logical cause.
Read the full entry →The refactor that preceded this build was large. Four phases, each with entry criteria and exit criteria defined before a single line was changed.
Read the full entry →For the first eighteen months, every new feature required a meeting. Where does this belong?
Read the full entry →There is a small piece of behavior in the system — a rule about how a certain kind of conflict resolves itself when two practitioners edit the same surface within a few seconds of each other. It was written carefully.
Read the full entry →Early in the planning cycle, the feature list was longer. Gamification streaks to drive retention.
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