What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.
234 articles · page 25 of 39
24 Apr 2026
The interesting engineering in dispatch software isn't the happy path. It's the list of exceptions the operator has been handling by memory for a decade.
Case notes · 6 min
23 Apr 2026
Feature flags are cheap to add and expensive to forget. We counted how many were still live a year after their features shipped.
Engineering · 5 min
22 Apr 2026
We started letting an agent run the first pass of an incident runbook. It only works because we rewrote the runbooks first.
AI · 6 min
21 Apr 2026
Usability testing said the onboarding flow was clear. Real signups dropped off at a step nobody in the test session hit.
Quality · 6 min
20 Apr 2026
A shared database looks like an integration shortcut. It's usually a coupling nobody agreed to.
Engineering · 6 min
17 Apr 2026
Asking a coding agent to write out its plan first turned out to be a cheaper review step than reading the diff.
