An ongoing journal
Essays on the craft of software.
Long-form writing on software engineering, Salesforce, AI, and what AI is doing to the way we build. Slow takes, made to last.
- 01EngineeringThe Quiet Power of Boring CodeThe most resilient systems I have worked on were not clever. They were obvious — and that obviousness was a deliberate, expensive choice.
- 02SalesforceSalesforce Flows Are Eating Your ApexDeclarative automation has quietly crossed a threshold. Here is how I decide what still belongs in code — and what no longer does.
- 03AIWhat LLMs Can't Refactor (Yet)Models are extraordinary at local edits and strangely helpless at the changes that actually matter. The gap is instructive.
- 04AI · BusinessAI Won't Replace Your Architects. It'll Replace Your Meetings.The bottleneck in most engineering orgs was never a shortage of code. It was the cost of getting aligned.
- 05SalesforceDesigning Idempotent IntegrationsThe retry is not an edge case. It is the normal case. Designing as though it were is the difference between calm systems and pager fatigue.
- 06EngineeringReading Code Is the JobWe hire for the ability to write and then spend our careers reading. It is worth getting good at the thing we actually do.