blog
Writing.
Notes from building things and the people I built them with.
A small queue, an obsessive backoff, and a saved Saturday
How a tiny retry queue with careful backoff kept a weekend incident from happening.
What I learned spending six weeks inside a stakeholder’s workflow
Notes from embedding with the team that had the problem before writing code.
The unglamorous mechanics of pricing — what I got wrong twice
Two pricing mistakes and what the mechanics taught me.