Boring choices I keep making

The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half the time I notice the bug while writing the sentence.

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.

I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future me reads it more than I thought he would.

I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling catches up.

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when you go over.