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Amdahl's Law for Engineering Teams: Why 10x Developers Don't Scale
8/13/2025Apply queuing theory to eliminate team bottlenecks and achieve linear scaling with engineer count.
API Affordances and Discoverability: Design SDKs That Teach Themselves
8/13/2025Create APIs so intuitive that developers succeed on the first try without reading documentation.
Decision Memo Patterns for Engineers
8/13/2025Write-first engineering to reduce rework.
Designing for Failure Domains
8/13/2025Minimize blast radius by design.
14 Developer Mindset Topics (Index)
8/13/2025Index of mindset posts for expert engineers.
Error Taxonomy Design: Turn Exceptions into Exceptional UX
8/13/2025Design error systems that guide users to success instead of just documenting failure.
The Hidden Geometry of Data Models
8/13/2025Shape-preserving transformations across time.
Latent Complexity Budgeting: The Hidden Tax on Every Line of Code
8/13/2025Treat complexity like a financial budget to prevent the technical debt spiral that kills velocity.
Mental Models for Caching: Stop Breaking Production with Cache Logic
8/13/2025Use memory psychology to design caches that are fast, correct, and won't wake you up at 3 AM.
Negative Capability: The Debugging Superpower Nobody Teaches
8/13/2025Master the art of uncertainty to debug impossible problems faster than senior engineers.
The Perceptual Load of Code: Why Smart Devs Write Dumb PRs
8/13/2025Apply cognitive science to ship faster code reviews, fewer bugs, and APIs that developers actually want to use.
Production as a Learning System
8/13/2025Use prod safely as your fastest feedback loop.
Semantic Logging as Narrative: When Your Logs Tell the Perfect Crime Story
8/13/2025Transform chaotic event streams into compelling detective stories that solve production mysteries in minutes, not hours.
Temporal Coupling: The Silent Killer of System Reliability
8/13/2025Master time-aware architecture to eliminate 80% of production incidents and ship features without fear.
The Tactile Interface of Text: Why Milliseconds Matter More Than Algorithms
8/13/2025Optimize your text pipeline to think faster, code better, and ship more—the hidden bottleneck every developer ignores.