“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.
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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.
Adapter Boundaries That Make Change Cheaper
How adapter boundaries make vendor changes easier while preserving payment outcomes, recovery decisions, and differences the business needs to know.