Writing about software engineering, clean code, lessons learned from building things, and whatever else I'm obsessing over.
No one deletes CSS with confidence. Styles outlive the components they were written for, quietly accumulating into a 3MB ghost in your bundle. Tailwind fixes the incentive — not by changing how you write styles, but by changing what the system optimizes for.
Read moreMy first job was fully asynchronous. No constant pings, barely any meetings, no pressure to reply instantly. At the time it felt slow. It wasn't — it was just quieter. And much more focused.
Read moreMost developers treat errors differently depending on where they see them — editor, terminal, or production. CI removes that inconsistency. Here's how to enforce quality automatically so bad code never reaches main.
Read moreBack in 2015, every website looked the same — Bootstrap buttons, Bootstrap navbars, Bootstrap everything. Fast forward to today, and a new default is emerging. Here's why shadcn/ui is following the same path, and why that's actually a good thing.
Read moreEvery time I start a new project, I follow one rule: get to production as early as possible. Here's my complete scaffolding workflow — from git setup to first deploy.
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