When Doing Too Much Is a Symptom, Not a Solution

We are now back for more on the series Between Good Enough & Too Much with post #3. It’s Friday. Let’s refocus on the human side of engineering. We don’t just ship code from abandoned basements. We collaborate, we negotiate, and we push through conflicting priorities. We work with people, and that makes all the […]

Performance Isn’t a Fire, It’s a Fuse

Welcome back to the Between Good Enough & Too Much series 😄 In the last issue—Chasing Your Next‑Level Self—we talked about balancing perfection and shipping under pressure. Now, let’s see how that same choice plays out when “good enough” bumps into real performance problems. Why Performance Matters Even at Small Scale Even if your application […]

Chasing Your Next‑Level Self

A blog series for engineers living somewhere between “just ship it” and “let’s rewrite it in Rust.” Hey there fellow generalist 👋🏾 Chasing your next-level self I wrote my first line of code 13 years ago. Whew! After all this time, there’s still one resounding question looming in the back of my head: I used […]