The Day CSS Layout Stopped Feeling Like Magic
Flexbox for one dimension, Grid for two. The simple mental model that turned years of guessing into a real skill.
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The Code Review Comments I Find Myself Writing Most
After thousands of PR reviews, the same handful of comments keep coming up. Here are the patterns and why each one matters.
Vim, VS Code, JetBrains — The Editor Wars I’ve Stopped Caring About
I’ve been paid to write code in all three. What actually made me faster wasn’t the editor — it was learning my debugger and stopping the chair-rearranging.
Three API Design Mistakes I’ve Shipped (So You Don’t Have To)
Versioning, pagination, and the overloaded boolean that meant three different things. Real mistakes, real fixes, and what I’d do differently.
How I Read an Unfamiliar Codebase Without Pretending to Be a Genius
A repeatable order of operations for navigating a new codebase: entrypoints first, data flow second, opinions last.
I Removed a Popular Library and Nothing Broke (At First)
How I figured out a date-formatting dependency was bloat, not a best practice, and replaced it with 20 lines of code.
Five Small Git Habits I Stole From Better Engineers
None of these are flashy. That’s exactly why they’ve survived two job changes and my own laziness.