02 / Field Notes
Dispatches from the workshop — performance surgery, architecture opinions, and lessons that cost more than they should have.
A production queue backlog, a profiler, and the three changes that actually mattered. Spoiler: none of them were "add more workers."
The database in this very site is a single file. Here's the case for boring, and the short list of times it genuinely breaks down.
Why this site looks the way it does: the thinking behind the HQ metaphor, and how a theme becomes a filter for every design decision.
Every engineer knows the pull of the clean slate. A field guide to telling the honest rewrite apart from the procrastination cosplay.