Perspective

If you're looking for educational posts on engineering best practices, enterprise development, or climbing the corporate ladder, this probably isn't the site for you. But every so often a post here might be useful on the enterprise side anyway. When that's the case, I'll try to remember to tag it as enterprise so it's easier to filter for.

If you’re more into experimental frameworks, questioning modern engineering dogma, and getting as much out of breaking things as building them, you might have more fun here.

The aim is simple: build shit, break things, and keep moving forward. I care about rigor where it keeps the work honest and helps it hold up. Beyond that, idgaf. I’m chasing novel ideas and making them solid enough to stand, not testing for the sake of testing or dressing things up to look rigorous.

Some of what I write will cut against what the enterprise world calls “correct.” That’s not a knock on enterprise. Two things to keep in mind:

1. I’m working in my own practical interests, and my goals and risk tolerance won’t always line up with a big org’s. Keep that in mind when a call of mine looks strange.
2. A lot of what gets treated as the “right way” of doing things is inherited tradition that made sense in some past context but may not necessarily hold today. What made sense in the punch card era didn’t make sense in the early 2000s. What made sense in the early 2000s may not make sense today in the age of codegen.

Each post opens with a “Footing” note for more transparency. It calls out how much is opinion, how much is settled, and whether to read it with a grain or a boulder of salt.

Please take away from this whatever serves you and disregard the parts that don’t.