Engineering-Practices
2026
- The 6 Principles: How I Try to Work as an Engineer
- The Highest-Leverage Work Is Never Feature Work
- Stuck Designing or Stuck Building?
- Code Review Is Wasted on Style Comments
- How to Learn a Codebase With No Docs
- If Running Tests Takes Willpower, They're Too Slow
- Profile First, Optimize Second
- Design for the System You Have, Not the One You Imagine
- Don't Touch Code You Don't Understand Yet
- Ship Small, Ship Boring, Know When You're Done
- Get the Data Model Right, Get Everything Else for Free
- Push Complexity to the Edges