TECH
THOUGHTS

I built a metronome, which sounds like a weekend toy until you realize it is one of the hardest timing problems you can hand a browser. Here is what broke, and why the clock you reach for first is the wrong one.

Every few months a framework becomes the answer to everything. I have stopped picking sides. Here is the small set of questions I actually ask before committing to a tool, and why the loud debates rarely help.

Rate limiting gets filed under infrastructure and handed to whoever owns the gateway. That is how you end up with limits that protect your servers and quietly punish your best users. The numbers are a product call.

You type an address and a page appears. In between is one of the largest distributed systems ever built, and almost nobody looks at it. Here is the whole path, from the organization that governs the root down to the answer your browser caches.

Early on, process is mostly a way of feeling organized while you build the wrong thing. Later, the lack of it is what stops you from building anything. Knowing which phase you are in is most of the job.