Why I went back to plain text

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me has now stopped trusting. Comments rot faster than code.

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.

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