Perspectives
On the craft, not the code
Opinionated writing about how engineers think, where they get stuck, and what experience teaches that documentation never does. Some pieces disagree with each other. That's intentional.
Most data quality problems are data modeling problems in disguise. The pipeline just makes them visible.
Opinionated writing. Some pieces disagree with each other. That's intentional.
Learning & Career
How engineers learn, plateau, and misjudge their own progress. What seniority actually means vs. what people think it means.
Judgment & Reasoning
The gap between knowing patterns and having judgment. How to reason about systems beyond diagrams and design docs.
Tooling & Hype
Why some tools win despite being worse. What vendor narratives hide. Why modern doesn't mean better.
Production Lessons
What running systems teaches that building them never does. Operational instincts and the lessons that only emerge after things break.