Zoom In, Zoom Out: Reasoning About Software Systems
Using individual capabilities and complete business workflows together to understand a system, expose missing decisions, and judge whether its pieces actually fit.
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“All the Lego Pieces Are Around”: How I Approach Feature Estimates
How I use existing capabilities to reason about feature timelines, separating reuse from adaptation, new work, and the unknowns that need investigation.
Why a Modular Monolith Is Often the Right Platform for a Small Team
How small teams can build clear capability boundaries without taking on the operational cost of distributed systems before the business has earned it.
How I Use AI to Make Software Easier to Own
How I use AI to investigate, implement, challenge assumptions, and remove unnecessary complexity while retaining responsibility for engineering decisions.
Configuration Beats Code Only When Variation Is Bounded
A decision framework for moving business rules into governed configuration without creating an untyped programming language that nobody can operate safely.