An hour with a specification, against a week of inferring behaviour from a library’s source. A client library encodes one interpretation of a specification and the parts it…
One declaration at the top of the stylesheet, unchanged for a year, doing all the specificity work. A single-class utility beating a component rule without !important is what…
A crash loop handled by a restart limit and an alert, which resolved the outage and delayed the diagnosis. Automatic recovery that stops a symptom without addressing the…
A supplier endpoint answering successfully with an empty body, for eleven weeks, after the supplier was acquired. A successful response with no content is indistinguishable from a successful…
A document describing this codebase’s conventions, read by a tool and by people, kept in the repository. The file is the single most effective thing we have done…