The quiet case for a boring stack
A small app doesn’t need a small version of a big company’s infrastructure. Notes on choosing tools you can live with.
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thoughts in progress.
Notes on building software, learning by doing, and thinking beyond the code.
What SQLite taught me about adding a queue
An experiment in doing less: a local database, a little contention, and a much better question.
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Make room for unfinished ideas
A small argument for publishing the useful middle — before every thought turns into a definitive guide.
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Read article Small things, worth keeping
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Leave yourself a trail.
The most useful comment I wrote today wasn’t about what the code does. It was about the alternative I tried, and why I walked away from it.
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One good question beats another tool.
Before adding a background worker, I asked: does this actually need to happen in the background? Turns out, not yet.
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Learning in the margins.
Twenty minutes, one unfamiliar language, one tiny script. No course, no roadmap. Just enough friction to notice what I take for granted.
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