Notes from the workshop.
Occasional essays on how we think about engineering, taste, and building Fewzon in quiet.
- 9 min read
Building in Quiet: Why Fewzon Chose the Slow Lane
A look at why we're building Fewzon without a launch countdown, a waitlist funnel, or a Twitter storm — and what we think the tradeoffs actually are.
- 8 min read
Infrastructure Is a Taste Problem
Most infrastructure decisions are framed as technical, but the interesting ones are aesthetic. A short essay on why 'good taste' is the missing rubric in platform engineering.
- 10 min read
The Cost of Abstractions You Did Not Choose
Every framework ships with a worldview. Adopting the framework means adopting the worldview — often without noticing. An honest accounting of what that costs.
- 9 min read
Small Teams and the Illusion of Velocity
Small teams look fast because they don't have to coordinate. But some of that speed is borrowed from a future you will eventually have to pay back.
- 7 min read
The Hidden Cost of Configurability
Every configuration option is a promise to your future self. A short essay on why the most respected tools tend to be the least configurable.
- 8 min read
Documentation as a First-Class Artifact
Docs are usually treated as an afterthought. The teams that treat them as a product ship better software, and they don't take longer doing it.
- 10 min read
Why Most Metrics Are Lying to You
Dashboards feel objective, but they are aggressively editorial. A tour of the specific ways metrics mislead the teams that trust them most.
- 8 min read
The Underrated Value of Boring Technology
Novel technology is exciting; boring technology ships. A defense of the unglamorous choices that quietly power most of the software you actually use.
- 9 min read
Hiring for Taste, Not Just Skill
Skill is what an engineer can do; taste is what they choose to do. The second is harder to hire for and matters more over the long run.
- 7 min read
The Quiet Work of Deleting Code
The best engineers we know delete more code than they add. A short essay on why deletion is undervalued and why great teams protect the people doing it.