Engineering12 Nov 2025
Designing for the millisecond
Why I treat response time as a first-class design constraint, and the techniques that keep an interface feeling instant from database query to first paint.
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Writing · 4 posts
Articles
Long-form notes on engineering, interface design, and the discipline of building software that lasts. Considered, slow-reading, and occasionally opinionated.
TypeScript28 Oct 2025
Types that make invalid states unrepresentable
A practical tour of modelling a domain so the compiler catches the bugs you'd otherwise ship.
ReadInfrastructure09 Oct 2025
The deployment that simply works
Notes on building boring, reliable pipelines that nobody has to think about.
ReadDesign21 Sep 2025
Restraint as a design system
What luxury brands taught me about the discipline of removing things.
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