May 28, 2026·6 min read
On building software that lasts
Most code we write does not survive five years. Here is what makes the rare bit that does outlive the rest.
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Alex's Notebook
Notes on engineering, design systems, and shipping software that lasts.
by @alex
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May 14, 2026·8 min read
Design systems are not component libraries
The trap most teams fall into: shipping a library of buttons and calling it a system. The actual work is upstream.
designsystems
Apr 30, 2026·4 min read
A short defense of boring tech
Postgres, Django, jQuery. Boring is a feature, not a bug. You can ship more with less if you stop chasing.
engineering
Apr 12, 2026·9 min read
Notes from rewriting our deploy pipeline
Three months, two false starts, one outage. Here is what we learned moving from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.
devopsengineering
Mar 28, 2026·5 min read
On writing for engineers who hate writing
Documentation is not the enemy. The enemy is documentation written like documentation. Treat it like code.
writingcraft
Mar 10, 2026·7 min read
Why your standup is broken
If your daily standup runs over 15 minutes, something is wrong. Usually it is not the meeting. It is the team.
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