The case against premature abstraction
Naming is one of the hardest problems in software, yet we spend less time on it than we should. Let's talk about why it matters and how to get better at it.
Recent posts
- Incremental adoption of types · 56 minutes ago · 57,709 reads
- Rethinking notification design · 2 days ago
- On writing code that lasts · 4 minutes ago
Rethinking notification design
Distributed systems fail in ways that are hard to predict. After years of debugging production incidents, certain patterns keep recurring. This post explores a few.
From the archive
Naming is one of the hardest problems in software, yet we spend less time on it than we should. Let's talk about why it matters and how to get better at it.
About this site
These are my notes on building reliable, readable, maintainable systems. Interested in clarity over cleverness.
Thoughts on design. Updated weekly.
Elsewhere
Occasional thoughts on technical topics. Past essays here.