Practical writing on building fast, maintainable products for the web.
A practical guide to handling traffic spikes: what actually breaks first, the cheap fixes that buy you time, and the rough costs and tradeoffs of each step.
You can learn what actually happens in your product without tracking people across the web. Here is the honest middle ground between flying blind and being creepy.
A plain-spoken guide for founders on picking a tech stack: the real tradeoffs, rough costs, realistic timelines, and the choices that quietly cost you later.