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Writing on software & systems
Notes from production code, infrastructure, and the tooling in between.
GitStack vs GitHub stacked pull requests
A comparison of GitHub's stacked pull requests with GitStack, and what it means in practice that GitHub builds every stack out of pull requests and branches.
Build for leverage
Suppose you are an engineer at an organization with something to protect, and you sit down with a coding agent to build a feature from a design doc. The...
One page, three speeds
How to build fast, interactive web UIs by rendering HTML on the server and adding just enough JavaScript, using go-templ, htmx, and Solid. The example is a code review page with drag-to-comment and live updates.
The constraint you forgot you agreed to
GitHub decided in 2008 that the reviewable unit would be a branch. That decision still sizes your work. What it costs, and what changes when a review stops needing its own branch.
Introducing GitStack
GitStack is a Git-backed forge built around stacked reviews. What it is, why I built it, and how to try v0.1.
Wiring Go at scale
A few years ago I worked on a Go service that translated a free-text DSL into structured SQL. Each query was assembled from a half-dozen inputs scattered...
Building a CSS flexbox engine in Go
I rebuilt CSS flexbox in Go to lay out a terminal UI framework. The interesting bugs were the places where the terminal disagreed with the browser: integer...
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