Code Habits
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Rebase With a Backup Branch
I still remember the exact feeling of my stomach dropping in a dimly lit office back at the logistics startup—that cold, hollow sensation when you…
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A Branch Older Than a Week Is a Problem
I’ve sat through enough “agile transformation” workshops to know that most people treat git workflows like a religious ritual rather than a tool. They’ll spend…
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Changing the Table While People Use It
I still remember the specific, hollow sound of a Slack notification at 2:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup. It wasn’t a loud…
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Write the Down Migration First
I still remember the specific, hollow feeling of staring at a terminal at 3:14 AM, watching a deployment hang while the production database CPU spiked…
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Give Every Flag an Expiry Date
I remember sitting in a dark apartment three years ago, staring at a trace of a production outage that felt like a ghost in the…
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Your Logs Are a Database of Passwords
I still remember the cold sweat I felt back at the logistics startup, staring at a terminal screen at 3:15 AM because our centralized logging…
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Log What You Would Want at Three in the Morning
I spent three hours last Tuesday digging through a mountain of “INFO” level noise just to find the one trace that explained why a specific…
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A Retry Without Idempotency Is a Duplicate
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3 AM, watching a dashboard turn a violent shade of red while my service essentially performed a self-inflicted…
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Safe to Run Twice
I still remember the sound of my phone buzzing on the nightstand at 3:14 AM during my time at the logistics startup. It wasn’t a…
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The Default Argument That Remembers
I still remember the cold, stale air of the office at 3:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup. I wasn’t debugging a complex…