How Decisions Get Made: Approval Chain or Single Signature?
Companies don't fail at going fast or going slow — they fail at matching the speed to the decision. A reversibility frame, and three desks to view it from.
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Corporate or Owner-Run? Size Isn't What Separates Them
What separates company types isn't headcount — it's where decisions are made and how much of the reasoning gets written down. Four axes, and three desks to view them from.
TypeScript's new compiler and why build speed matters
TypeScript's compiler rewritten in Go, and why a fast feedback loop is so valuable for developers.
From Dual-Write to Outbox: A Log of Idempotent Consumption and Field-Level Encryption
Lost events from dual-write pushed me to a transactional outbox, at-least-once delivery to idempotent consumption. Then I encrypted the GDPR fields at the row level with x-gdpr-sensitive. Notes from a real project.
archlint: Enforcing Architecture Boundaries in CI, Deterministically
Architecture decisions stay true on the wiki and rot in the code. I built archlint: a standalone Go CLI that enforces the layer boundaries in architecture.json on every commit — with go/parser, no model, in CI. Here's why I built it this way.
One architecture rule, three languages: archlint now does Go + TypeScript + Python
In a polyglot repo, 'domain must not import infrastructure' is the same rule in every language — only how the import resolves differs. I added TypeScript and Python to archlint: one architecture.json enforces all three in CI.