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DRY – a common source of bad abstractions

2025-05-19 08:00:00

The worst and hardest to maintain code that I've seen or written has been in pursuit of DRY

Why websites and webapps are different

2025-05-13 08:00:00

The website vs webapp debate is at least as old as my career. And it keeps coming up. One camp says "React is too complex you don't need any of that", the other camp goes "I don't understand how you live like this". Both are right.

Stateless decision making

2025-05-10 08:00:00

Do you ever feel like your brain is full and there's so much going on you can barely keep up? Me too.

Your interview is a sales call

2025-05-03 08:00:00

I've been doing hiring manager screens lately. Here's a few tips.

How do you find time for cleanup work

2025-05-01 08:00:00

A reader asks how do you find time for technical cleanup work. If OKRs and bugs take priority, when will you make improvements?

Say no to abstract code

2025-04-24 08:00:00

The trick, then, is to keep related code close together to reduce context boundaries and to limit the amount of relevant detail so it fits in your working memory.