I’ve kept private notes on every project I’ve worked on for about a decade. Most of them aren’t worth sharing. A few are. This is where the few go.
The format will be short. I want to capture specific things — the kind of detail I’d want if I were searching for it six months from now — rather than essays on what software engineering is supposed to be.
What I’ll write about
- Postmortems, lightly anonymized.
- Tools I’ve replaced and why.
- Performance puzzles, especially the ones whose answer surprised me.
- Occasional opinions, marked as such.
Here’s an arbitrary chart, mostly to verify the pipeline:
That’s it for the kickoff. Real content soon.