The Quiet Power of Boring Tools
Every few months a new framework promises to fix the problems the last one introduced. I have mostly stopped chasing them. Here is why boring tools compound in ways shiny ones never do.
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Essays on software, craft, and the occasional tangent.
Designing for the Second User
Every piece of software has two users: the person who will use it now, and the person who will maintain it later. Often that second person is you, six months from now. Writing for them changes everything.
Why Local-First Changes How You Think
Local-first software is more than an architecture choice. It is a set of assumptions about who owns the data, what happens when the network disappears, and what it means to trust the software you use every day.
Honest Software
Software that is honest about what it is doing, what it costs, and what it cannot do is rarer than it should be. A few notes on what that looks like in practice.