When Is Process Armor, and When Is It a Shackle?
Process isn't a virtue — it's a coordination tax you pay. When it should be added, why it never gets removed, and how it looks from three different desks.
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How Decisions Get Made: Approval Chain or Single Signature?
Companies don't fail at going fast or going slow — they fail at matching the speed to the decision. A reversibility frame, and three desks to view it from.
Corporate or Owner-Run? Size Isn't What Separates Them
What separates company types isn't headcount but where decisions are made and how much reasoning gets written down. Four axes, three desks.
TypeScript's new compiler and why build speed matters
TypeScript's compiler ported to Go, and why a fast feedback loop is so valuable for developers.
archlint: Enforcing Architecture Boundaries in CI, Deterministically
Architecture decisions stay true on the wiki and rot in the code. archlint enforces the boundaries in architecture.json on every commit, no model.