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Engineering · Jul 28, 2026
How to replace a system without stopping the business
Rewrites fail when the first release grows until it can never ship. Find the seam instead.
Product · Jul 14, 2026
The discovery phase pays for itself
Two weeks of structured discovery routinely removes a quarter of build work that nobody would have used.
Company · Jun 19, 2026
Why we still write things down
Documentation is not overhead when the same team is still running the system three years later.
Engineering · May 25, 2026
Estimating work you have never done before
A practical method for putting a number on unfamiliar work without pretending to certainty.
Engineering · Apr 30, 2026
What a good handover actually contains
Runbooks, decision records and the three things that are always missing.
Company · Apr 5, 2026
Hiring for the second system
The engineers who thrive on greenfield work are not always the ones who keep it alive.
Product · Mar 6, 2026
Saying no to features, politely
Most scope creep is a communication problem, not a discipline problem.
Engineering · Feb 4, 2026
Feature flags are a migration tool
Used well they are how you cut over; used badly they are permanent technical debt.
Engineering · Jan 5, 2026
The cost of a shared staging environment
Why we stopped queueing for staging and what we replaced it with.