Making a Big Repo Feel Small
Sparse checkout as the everyday way to work in a monorepo.
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Keys to the Kingdom
Finding the Keys That Matter
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.
The Myth of Multiplying Yourself
Sometimes the things that once made sense deserve another look.
A general guide to branching in a multi-product monorepo
How many teams ship one product across surfaces without collisions.
Fast, Loose, and Fragile
Why the freedom that makes the web powerful also makes it fragile.
Monkey Dust and the Pale Blue Room
A fever dream of early-2000s Britain that still haunts its viewers.
The Tide of Review
Why code review must be predictable, humane, and measured.
Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence
When muscles and nerves aren’t enough to stand.
A Modern Approach to Engineering
The practices that make companies faster, safer, and engineers more valuable.
Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product
One wardrobe, many uniforms, one team.
Boarding the Release Train
Why weekly release trains and a monorepo culture deliver stability, speed, and less toil.
Developer Experience
Email Signals
Clarity in the address line is clarity in the organisation.
Developer Experience
Boiled Frogs and Ringed Deployments
The case for ringed deployments: safety, visibility, and confidence at scale
Player Experience
Watching the Watchers, Part 2: How Scripts Break Your Frame Budget
Why borrowed milliseconds cost more than they seem.
Organisational Design
The Integration Dilemma
Balancing integration, adoption, and the lure of best-of-breed.
Developer Experience
Show Your Working
Why visible fixes build knowledge, demonstrate competence, and strengthen trust.
Developer Experience
Trading Without a Ticker
Real-user monitoring is our market feed. Hide it, and we trade blind on player experience.
Developer Experience
The Right Shoes?
The right shoes are the ones closest to production.
Developer Experience
The Code Belongs to Everyone
Inner sourcing only works when making changes is easy. Standards make that possible.
Developer Experience
The Wrong Shoes for the Race
Test environments wobble because local ones do not exist.
Philosophy & Perspective
Shaping Architecture Through Behaviour
The chart is not the system. The system is what teams make visible.
Player Experience
As Fast As It Feels
Real speed and perceived speed are the same thing. If it feels slow, it is slow.
Developer Experience
Refactor, Rewrite, Repeat?
How AI shifts the balance between improving and starting over.