The boring database is the fast one
Most systems do not need a new kind of storage. They need the old kind, understood properly.
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Writing that took its time
Everything here began as a note someone kept coming back to. When it was ready they published it, and every revision since is kept, so you can read how it changed.
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The clockmakers and the idea of a release
A sixteenth-century guild rule, and why it still describes shipping software well.
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Keep a lab notebook for your code
The habit that made me a scientist turned out to be the one that made me a better programmer.
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Small models, long notes
What changed when I stopped asking a model to know things and started asking it to read mine.
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Write the runbook before the incident
The best time to explain how a system fails is while nothing is on fire.
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The quiet cost of a beautiful chart
Every decision that makes a figure prettier is also a decision about what the reader will believe.
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