A blog about building software
Engineering notes, design decisions and tooling that earns its place. Written at a working desk, for people who ship things and have to live with what they shipped.
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The posts people send to other people. Longer pieces on shipping, tooling and the details that decide whether software feels trustworthy.
Big releases fail quietly for weeks before they fail loudly. Here is the weekly rhythm I use to keep changes small enough to reason about and boring enough to ship on a Thursday.
Ari Bennett · 7 min read
The tools I have kept are not the ones that impressed me. They are the ones that never asked for my attention again.
Interfaces get read twice: once by somebody skimming, once by somebody in trouble. Designing for the second reader changes nearly every decision.
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I have started around thirty side projects and finished nine. The nine had nothing in common in subject or stack, and everything in common in shape.
Ari Bennett · 9 min read
A type scale is not a mathematical mystery. It is five or six decisions you make once, then stop relitigating on every screen.
Ari Bennett · 6 min read
Not a configuration tour. Four decisions that turned my terminal from a project back into a tool.
Ari Bennett · 7 min read
Most documentation is accurate and useless. The difference is almost always structure, not effort.
Ari Bennett · 8 min read
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