Engineering Culture
The Answer Without the Question
A case study in how AI can encourage confidence when the limits of the analysis are not made clear.
Jupiter Jayna
British algorist based in the Cotswolds, England. He's run system engineering for some of the worlds busiest websites.
Player Experience
What It Takes for a Web App to Feel Premium
Building a premium experience on the web is harder than it looks, but it scales everywhere once you get it right. This is what that discipline actually involves.
Player Experience
The Five Second Contract
Queueing looks harmless at first. A slow call holds a few threads, then a few more, and if left unchecked it can tip the whole system over.
Developer Experience
The Other Production
Players only see production. Engineers live in the systems behind it. When those systems fail, the product fails later. The two worlds are closer than they look.
Player Experience
Let the Browser Do the Heavy Lifting
Most slowdowns in an SPA come from one place. Too much work ends up hanging off a single thin thread inside the browser, and the moment it strains, the whole product feels it.
Developer Experience
Making a Big Repo Feel Small
Sparse checkout as the everyday way to work in a monorepo.
Platform Engineering
Keys to the Kingdom
Finding the Keys That Matter
Developer Experience
What Would It Take to Go Live Next Week?
Sometimes the fastest way to find out what’s broken is to try to ship it.
Player Experience
The Myth of Multiplying Yourself
Sometimes the things that once made sense deserve another look.
Developer Experience
A general guide to branching in a multi-product monorepo
How many teams ship one product across surfaces without collisions.
Engineering Culture
Fast, Loose, and Fragile
Why the freedom that makes the web powerful also makes it fragile.
Art & Analogue
Monkey Dust and the Pale Blue Room
A fever dream of early-2000s Britain that still haunts its viewers.